two o'clock
Robert paused to see the effect of these words . They had produced no change in the old man . He still sat trembling from head to foot , and staring with the fixed and solid gaze of some helpless wretch whose every sense is gradually becoming numbed by terror . `` At two o'clock on that day , '' remarked Robert Audley , `` my poor friend was seen alive and well at -- -- , at the house of which I speak . From that hour to this I have never been able to hear that he has been seen by any living creature . I have taken such steps as must have resulted in procuring the information of his whereabouts , were he alive . I have done this patiently and carefully -- at first , even hopefully .