12 o'clock
She pleaded and prayed that I might become a Christian , but I would n't . I said when the war was over I would become a Christian , but not till then . All her pleading was in vain , and at last , when I was going away , she took out a watch and said : ` My son , your father left this to me when he died . Take it , and I want you to remember that every day at 12 o'clock your mother will be praying for you . ' Then she gave me her Bible , and marked out passages , and put a few different references in the fly-leaf . I took the watch and the Bible just because my mother gave them . I never intended to read the Bible .