about four o'clock
Benedict now formally introduced them . The colonel had already glanced at his newspaper . `` Do you know , '' said he , `` that although the doctor pronounced the wound of no consequence , young Blind nevertheless died early this morning ? A Hanoverian officer come from Berlin says that about four o'clock a man wrapped in a large cloak and wearing a large shady hat which concealed his face , arrived at the prison provided with a permission to see the prisoner , and was taken to his cell . Blind had been put into a strait waistcoat and no one knows what passed between them , but when his cell was inspected at eight o'clock he was dead . The doctor says he must have been dead nearly four hours , so that he must have died about the time this mysterious visitor left him . '' `` Is this official news ? ''