about ten o'clock
Meanwhile , there is another question that we must consider . '' He turned to the sergeant and asked : `` Have you made any inquiries as to the movements of the accused on the night of the murder ? '' `` I have , '' replied the sergeant , `` and I find that , on that night , the accused was alone in the house , his housekeeper having gone over to Eastwich . Two men saw him in the town about ten o'clock , apparently walking in the direction of Sundersley . '' This concluded the sergeant 's evidence , and when one or two more witnesses had been examined without eliciting any fresh facts , the coroner briefly recapitulated the evidence , and requested the jury to consider their verdict . Thereupon a solemn hush fell upon the court , broken only by the whispers of the jurymen , as they consulted together ; and the spectators gazed in awed expectancy from the accused to the whispering jury . I glanced at Draper , sitting huddled in his chair , his clammy face as pale as that of the corpse in the mortuary hard by , his hands tremulous and restless ; and , scoundrel as I believed him to be , I could not but pity the abject misery that was written large all over him , from his damp hair to his incessantly shifting feet .