about midnight
While he was gone , Mr. Tamworth summoned up courage to re-enter that cave of horror , and bring out the contents of the oak chest we had seen there . These were mostly stuffs in a more or less good state of preservation , and all the assistance they lent to the understanding of the tragedy that mystified us was the fact that the chest contained nothing , nor the room itself , of sufficient substance to help the wicked Urquhart in giving weight to the box which he had emptied of its living freight . This is doubtless the reason he resorted to the garden for the sand and stone he found there . Dr. Kenyon returned about midnight , and was met at the door by Mr. Tamworth and myself . `` Well ? '' I cried , in great excitement . `` Just as I supposed , '' he returned .