about one o’clock in the morning
What these papers were is not essential ; I mention them only to explain how it was that last night I happened to be at Lord Edam 's bed-side . I accompanied my father to Chetney House , but at the time we reached there Lord Edam was sleeping , and his physicians refused to have him awakened . My father urged that he should be allowed to receive Lord Edam 's instructions concerning the documents , but the physicians would not disturb him , and we all gathered in the library to wait until he should awake of his own accord . It was about one o'clock in the morning , while we were still there , that Inspector Lyle and the officers from Scotland Yard came to arrest Lord Arthur on the charge of murdering his brother . You can imagine our dismay and distress . Like every one else , I had learned from the afternoon papers that Lord Chetney was not dead , but that he had returned to England , and on arriving at Chetney House I had been told that Lord Arthur had gone to the Bath Hotel to look for his brother and to inform him that if he wished to see their father alive he must come to him at once . Although it was now past one o'clock , Arthur had not returned .