about
3 A.M.
I believe a man could have got diamonds on toast if he had chosen to ask for them . However , this is apart from my story . I had occupied the haunted chamber about two weeks before anything of importance occurred , and then it came -- and a more unpleasant , ill-mannered spook never floated in the ether . He materialized about 3 A.M. and was unpleasantly sulphurous to one 's perceptions . He sat upon the divan in my room , holding his knees in his hands , leering and scowling upon me as though I were the intruder , and not he . `` Who are you ? '' I asked , excitedly , as in the dying light of the log fire he loomed grimly up before me .