one o'clock A.M.
And as you are so good as to come with me , all will go right . '' Away we drove . The Count gave me a memorandum of the Christian and surnames of the deceased , his age , the complaint he died of , and the usual particulars ; also a note of the exact position in which a grave , the dimensions of which were described , of the ordinary simple kind , was to be dug , between two vaults belonging to the family of St. Amand . The funeral , it was stated , would arrive at half -- past one o'clock A.M. -LRB- the next night but one -RRB- ; and he handed me the money , with extra fees , for a burial by night . It was a good deal ; and I asked him , as he entrusted the whole affair to me , in whose name I should take the receipt . `` Not in mine , my good friend . They wanted me to become an executor , which I , yesterday , wrote to decline ; and I am informed that if the receipt were in my name it would constitute me an executor in the eye of the law , and fix me in that position .