about ten o'clock
Therefore I had no dread of being confronted by that attribute of Death alluded to by D'Arcy which is the most cruel and terrible of all -- corruption . But then what change should I find in the _ expression _ of those features which on the day of the interment had looked so calm ? A thrill ran through my frame as I pictured myself raising the coffin-lid , and finding expressed upon the face , in language more appalling than any malediction in articulate speech -- the curse ! At about ten o'clock I mounted the gangway and waited behind a deserted bungalow built for Fenella Stanley till I should hear the Odd-Fellows returning . In a few minutes I heard them approaching . They were singing snatches of songs they had been entertained with at Graylingham , and chatting and laughing as they went down Wilderness Road towards Raxton . As they passed the bungalow and adjoining mill there was a silence .