eight o'clock
The benches and tables had been cleared out and in the center of the one big room a cage ten feet square rested on a platform three and a half feet from the floor . Seats for the three hundred spectators were drawn closely around this . Suspended just above the open top of the cage were two big oil lamps with glass reflectors . It was eight o'clock when Harker , McTrigger and two other men bore Kazan to the arena by means of the wooden bars that projected from the bottom of his cage . The big Dane was already in the fighting cage . He stood blinking his eyes in the brilliant light of the reflecting lamps . He pricked up his ears when he saw Kazan .