ten o'clock at night
I am sure it will not be long . I am suffering terribly , and the sooner it comes , the better . '' The ashy gray of the colonel 's face sufficed to tell Lisle that the end was , indeed , near at hand . The colonel only spoke two or three times and , at ten o'clock at night , passed away painlessly . Upon Lisle devolved the sad work of arranging his funeral . He wrote to the colonel 's lawyer , asking him to come down . Hallett had left the house at once , though Lisle earnestly begged him to stay till the funeral was over .