ten o'clock
The infinite gusto with which he related a series of atrocious murders gave me a chill , and he looked like an evil spirit when his great red lips parted in a grin and revealed his black teeth . Presently he asked me if I had shot any people ; and when I said I had not , he became regretful , but soon brightened up again and said I would have plenty of chances yet . There were some bush villages , to which he would take me some day , and if we were careful we could knock over two or three people easily ; they were a bad lot these ` man-a-bush ' -LRB- bush-men -RRB- . At ten o'clock I turned in , and Bobaran , after an animated conversation with his family , lay down at my door with a Snider rifle and his horse-pistol by his side . And for many long , weary months , in the beautiful but fever-ridden Kabaira Bay , he was the only person to whom I could talk ; and in time I began to take a liking to him , for I found him , as Parker had told me , ` a thunderin ' old cut-throat , but as straight as a die to a white man who acts straight to him . ' ` Hi , mister , turn out , please , if you 're a-comin ' with us , ' a gruff voice called out to me one frosty morning in May , and then a hairy , good-humoured-looking face flattened itself against my window pane as the owner sought to peer into the room . I jumped out of bed , opened the window , and shivered in my pyjamas as the keen morning air rushed in to the warm room .