about nine o'clock in the morning
I will make my excuses at the end of the story . '' Then he read the slip of paper . I have not a copy of it , and have to quote from memory . It was the report of the physician who saw Wolf Tusk die , and it went on to say that about nine o'clock in the morning a heavy and unusual fever set in on that chief . He had been wounded in the battle of the day before , when he was captured , and the fever attacked all parts of his body . Although the doctor had made every effort in his power to relieve the Indian , nothing could stop the ravages of the fever . At four o'clock in the afternoon , having been in great pain , and , during the latter part , delirious , he died , and was buried near the spot where he had taken ill .