about ten o'clock
It was quite well known , however , in Gylingden , by this time , that Captain Lake was not to see the hustings -- that his spine was smashed -- that he was lying on an extemporised bed , still in his clothes , in the little parlour of Redman 's Farm -- cursing the dead mare in gasps -- railing at everybody -- shuddering whenever they attempted to remove his clothes -- hoping , in broken sentences , that his people would give Bracton and -- good licking . Bracton 's outrage was the cause of the entire thing -- and so help him Heaven , so soon as he should be on his legs again , he would make him feel it , one way or other . Buddle thought he was in so highly excited a state , that his brain must have sustained some injury also . He asked Buddle about ten o'clock -LRB- having waked up from a sort of stupor -RRB- -- ` what about Jim Dutton ? ' and then , whether there was not some talk about a body they had found , and what it was . So Buddle told him all that was yet known , and he listened very attentively . ` But Larkin has been corresponding with Mark Wylder up to a very late day , and if this body has been so long buried , how the devil can it be he ?