twelve
o'clock
They were mulatto half-breeds , retaining all the Indian features which that remnant of the tribe now in Charleston are distinguished by a family well known in the city , yet under the strictest surveillance of the police . Every thing around the little room denoted poverty and neatness . The withered remnant of an aged Indian mother lay stretched upon a bed of sickness , and the daughter , about nineteen years old , had been watching over her , and administering those comforts , which her condition required . `` Why , mother , it 's a ` most twelve o'clock . I do n't believe he 'll come to-night . '' She awaited her friend , or rather he whose mistress she had condescended to be , after passing from several lords . The history of this female remnant of beautiful Indian girls now left in Charleston , is a mournful one .