one o'clock
One shot must have hit , for at eleven o'clock that morning , when the case of John Doe Carpenter versus the Commonwealth of Western City was reached in Judge Ponty 's court , and the bailiff called the name of the defendant and there was no answer , the magistrate in a single sentence declared the bail forfeited , and passed on to the next case without a word . And all three of our afternoon newspapers reported this incident in an obscure corner on an inside page . The Red Prophet was dead and buried ! I took up Carpenter 's lunch at one o'clock , and discovered , to my dismay , that he had not tasted his breakfast . I ventured to speak to him ; but he sat on a chair , gazing ahead of him and paying no attention to me , so I left him alone . At six o'clock in the evening I took up his dinner , and discovered that he had not touched either breakfast or lunch ; but still he had nothing to say , so I took back the dinner , and went downstairs , and said to T-S : `` We 've got ourselves in for a hunger strike ! '' Needless to say , under the circumstances we did not very heartily enjoy our own dinner .