eleven o'clock
`` That you will soon find out , '' menacingly said McNerney . `` Where you ought to have been long ago ! '' In the long ride across the great city , McNerney grew complacent over his bold stroke in borrowing an unused store-room from the armorer of the Twenty-ninth Regiment . It was after eleven o'clock when the three entered the gloomy basement under the granite buttresses of the armory . In the lonely arched room only a table and a few chairs relieved the prison-like emptiness . A man with papers spread out before him scarcely raised his head as the three entered . While McNerney drew the terrified woman into a corner , Witherspoon anxiously paced the floor .