four o’clock
I , myself , have never before witnessed them . But during the Vendée the clocks persisted in striking four times every hour . The Comte d'Aulnes mounted the scaffold at that hour ; the Vicomte died under Charette at Fontenay at that hour ... . L'Ombre appeared in the waters of the moat at four o'clock one afternoon . And then the clocks went wrong . `` And all this happened again , they say , in 1870 . L'Ombre appeared in the moat .