two o'clock
It 's terrible -- terrible ! '' `` Come in here , '' I said , leading her into the dining room . `` Tell me all you know of the affair . '' `` Short discovered him just after two o'clock . He was then quite still . '' `` But there may be life , '' I exclaimed suddenly , and leaving her I rushed up the stairs and into the room where the old man had chatted to me so merrily not many hours before . The instant my gaze fell upon him I knew the truth .