10 o'clock
`` My surmises would be irrelevant and valueless to the Court ; and facts , indisputable facts , are all that should be required of witnesses . '' `` When and where did you next see the prisoner ? '' Cold , crisp , carefully accentuated , his words fell like lead upon the ears of all present , whose sympathies were enlisted for the desolate woman ; and as he stood , tall , graceful , with one hand thrust within his vest , the other resting easily on the back of the bench near him , his clear cut face so suggestive of metallic medallions , gave no more hint of the smouldering flame at his heart than the glittering ice crown of Eiriksjokull betrays the fierce lava tides beating beneath its frozen crust . `` At 10 o'clock on the same night , I saw the prisoner on the road leading from town to ` Elm Bluff ' , and not farther than half a mile from the cedar bridge spanning the ` branch ' , at the foot of the hill where the iron gate stands . '' `` She was then going in the direction of ` Elm Bluff ? ' '' `` She was sitting on the ground , with her head leaning against a pine tree , but she rose as I approached . '' `` As it was at night , is there a possibility of your having mistaken some one else for the prisoner ? ''