about eleven o'clock
It kept me awake until long after midnight . '' That last peril is one of the half-solved mysteries of my life . The following affidavit , secured by an assistant of the district attorney from a young physician in a village above Ballybeen , never a matter of record , heightened its interest for me and my friends . `` Deponent saith that about eleven o'clock on the evening of the , 24th of September -LRB- that on which the attack upon me was made -RRB- a man unknown to him called at his office and alleged that a friend of the stranger had been injured and was in need of surgical aid . He further alleged that his friend was in trouble and being sought after and that he , the caller , dared not , therefore , reveal the place where his friend had taken refuge . He offered the deponent the sum of ten dollars to submit to the process of blindfolding and of being conducted to I said place for the purpose of giving relief to the injured man . Whereupon the deponent declares that he submitted to said process and was conducted by wagon and trail to a bark shanty at some place in the woods unknown to him where the bandage was removed from his eyes .