about three in the
morning
There went the clock , nine o'clock ! Gee ! Was that all ? He thought it must be about three in the morning ! And then he must have dozed off for a little , for when he woke with a start it was very still and dark , as if the moon had gone away , had been and gone again , and he heard a cautious little mouse gnawing at the baseboard in his room , gnawing and stopping and gnawing again , then whisking over the lath like fingers running a scale on the piano . He had watched Miss Lynn do it once on the organ . He opened his eyes and looked hard at the window .