One o'clock
`` Come to-night , whatever happens ; the Cricket will be transferred to-morrow to another service . This is our only chance . '' He destroyed the paper as he had done the former one , picked up his file again , and went back to work , dogged and mute and desperate . One o'clock . He had been working for three hours now , and six of the eight bars were filed . Two more , and then , to climb ------ He began to recall the former occasions when these terrible attacks had come on . The last had been the one at New Year ; and he shuddered as he remembered those five nights .