twelve o'clock
`` Naturally ! So would you have been . It did n't speak , but in some indefinable manner it conveyed to me the purport of its visit . To-night , at twelve o'clock , we are to go to the house of a Hindu , called Karaver , in Berners Street , where we shall be initiated into the second stage of our compact . '' `` I hope to goodness we sha n't see any spectral trees or striped figures -- I 've had enough of them , '' Kelson said . `` Then take care you do n't do anything that might lead to the breaking of the compact , '' Hamar retorted , `` otherwise you 'll see something far worse . '' Shortly before midnight , Hamar , Curtis and Kelson , obeying the injunctions Hamar had received , set off to Berners Street , where they had little difficulty in finding Karaver 's house .