about two o'clock in the afternoon
| | Execution . | | _____________ | ________ | ___________ | _________ | __________ | | Sir Richard | | | | | | Brock -LRB- Bart . -RRB- | April 5 | May 3 | Hanged | May 30 | | _____________ | ________ | ___________ | _________ | __________ | | Thomas Beal | | | | | | -LRB- Tinker -RRB- | March 23 | April 15 | Hanged | May 30 | | _____________ | ________ | ___________ | _________ | __________ | | Ronald | | | | | | Barrymaine | May 12 | Waiting | Waiting | Waiting | | _____________ | ________ | ___________ | _________ | __________ | It was about two o'clock in the afternoon that Barnabas knocked at the door of the Viscount 's chambers in Half-moon Street and was duly admitted by a dignified , albeit somewhat mournful gentleman in blue and silver , who , after a moment of sighing hesitancy , ushered him into a small reception room where sat a bullet-headed man with one eye and a remarkably bristly chin , a sinister looking person who stared very hard with his one eye , and sucked very hard , with much apparent relish and gusto , at the knob of the stick he carried . At sight of this man the mournful gentleman averted his head , and vented a sound which , despite his impressive dignity , greatly resembled a sniff , and , bowing to Barnabas , betook himself upstairs to announce the visitor . Hereupon the one-eyed man having surveyed Barnabas from head to foot with his solitary orb , drew the knob of his stick from his mouth , dried it upon his sleeve , looked at it , gave it a final rub , and spoke . `` Sir , '' said he in a jovial voice that belied his sinister aspect , `` did you ` ear that rainbow sniff ? ''