the hour of twelve
o'clock
About this time , '' she added , `` the prisoner became very restless at night , indeed , she might say by day and night , and after a good deal of gloomy ill temper , he made inquiries for it , and on hearing that it had again appeared , even threatened her life if it were not produced . '' She closed her evidence by stating that she had secreted it , but could tell nothing of its ultimate and mysterious disappearance . Hanlon 's part in tracing the murder is already known , we presume , to the reader . He dreamt , but his dream was not permitted to go to the jury , that his father came to him , and said , that if he repaired to the Grey Stone , at Glendhu , on a night which he named , at the hour of twelve o'clock , he would get such a clue to his murder as would enable him to bring his murderer to justice . `` Are you the son , then , of the man who is said to have been murdered ? '' asked the judge . `` He was his son , '' he replied , `` and came first to that part of the country in consequence of having been engaged in a Party fight in his native place .