midnight
`` Now , '' said he , `` we are quiet . Sit down , if you do n't mind , and tell me your story all through . '' I did as he asked , beginning with the day when Jim showed me the passage in the _ Daily Occidental _ , and winding up with the stamp album and the Chailly post-mark . It was a long business ; and Carthew made it longer , for he was insatiable of details ; and it had struck midnight on the old eight-day clock in the corner before I had made an end . `` And now , '' said he , `` turn about : I must tell you my side , much as I hate it . Mine is a beastly story . You 'll wonder how I can sleep .