twelve o'clock
He glowered round upon each of them in turn , his sneering lips showing the pointed dogs ' teeth behind them , his whole arrogant personality brutally awake . `` Who 'll take it on ? You Merriton ? Fifty pounds , man , that I do n't get back safely and report to you chaps at twelve o'clock to-night . '' Merriton 's flushed face went a shade or two redder , and he took an involuntary step forward . It was only the doctor 's fingers upon his coat-sleeve that restrained him . Then , too , he felt some anxiety that this drunken fool should attempt to do the very thing which another drunken fool had attempted three months back .