two o'clock in the morning
If the quarrel recommenced during the night , the other boarder , named Reynolds , in the next room , heard nothing . Mrs. Pitman was up and down until one o'clock , when she dozed off . She heard no unusual sound . '' ` At approximately two o'clock in the morning , however , this Reynolds came to the room , and said he had heard some one in a boat in the lower hall . He and Mrs. Pitman investigated . The boat which Mrs. Pitman uses during a flood , and which she had tied to the stair-rail , was gone , having been cut loose , not untied . Everything else was quiet , except that Mrs. Ladley 's dog had been shut in a third-story room . ''