one o’clock in the morning
It is preferable , I think , to give the reader this account , rather than continue to reproduce my conversation with Rouletabille ; for I should be afraid , in a history of this nature , to add a word that was not in accordance with the strictest truth . CHAPTER XV . The Trap `` Last night -- the night between the 29th and 30th of October -- '' wrote Joseph Rouletabille , `` I woke up towards one o'clock in the morning . Was it sleeplessness , or noise without ? -- The cry of the Bete du Bon Dieu rang out with sinister loudness from the end of the park . I rose and opened the window .