three o'clock in the morning
`` Well , you see , '' explained the surgeon , `` Scoville was a dead man from the minute of the accident . Nothing could have saved him When the accident happened I was down at Bayville attending the men who were injured in the wreck last Saturday . I telegraphed that I would come at once . But there was a delay on the road , and I did not get here until three o'clock in the morning . Meanwhile everything had been done that was possible . But nothing could save the poor fellow . This shock will kill his wife .