eight o'clock
She was layin ' ... '' Out of a bad business the queer recognition stood solitarily opportune . Rhadamanthus ' own promise of clemency in return for the truth could not have been more effective . The plain facts , however , were wofully bitter to hear . The tramp had taken undisputed possession at eight o'clock that morning . The cottage was then empty . The fire was out and the bed in order . Upon the floor of the living-room lay the fragments of a pitcher , with the water , which this had held , settled in a pool upon the bricks .