eleven o'clock
When Dawson heard Lieutenant Doyle 's drunken voice he said there 'd be trouble getting him home , and he 'd better fetch Mrs. Doyle , and while he was gone Lascelles came out , excited , and threw down a twenty-dollar bill and ordered more Krug and some brandy , and there was still loud talk , and when Bonelli carried in the bottles Doyle was sitting back in a chair , held down by the other officer , who was laughing at him , but nevertheless had a knife in hand , -- a long , sharp , two-edged knife , -- and Doyle was calling him names , and was very drunk , and soon after they all went out into the rear court , and Doyle made more noise , and the cab drove away around the corner , going down the levee through the pouring rain , one man on the box with the driver . That was the last he saw . Then Mrs. Doyle came in mad , and demanded her husband , and they found him reeling about the dark court , swearing and muttering , and Dawson and she took him off between them . This must have been before eleven o'clock ; and that was absolutely all he knew . Then Mr. Allerton had told his story again , without throwing the faintest light on the proceedings ; and the hack-driver was found , and frankly and fully told his : that Lascelles and another gentleman hired him about eight o'clock to drive them down to the former 's place , which they said was several squares above the barracks . He said that he would have to charge them eight dollars such a night anywhere below the old cotton-press , where the pavement ended . But then they had delayed starting nearly an hour , and took another gentleman with them , and when driven by the storm to shelter at the Pelican saloon , three squares below where the pavement ended , and he asked for his money , saying he dare go no farther in the darkness and the flood , the Frenchman would n't pay , because he had n't taken them all the way .