three in the morning
Yes , let us follow your heart to good or evil . David , go you out and saddle up those nags . '' For Dick had worked late at their mail and weapons , which now were bright and sharp again , and was very weary . It was after three in the morning when at length , leaving the heath , they rode up to Dunwich Middlegate , expecting to find it shut against them at such an hour . But it stood open , nor did any challenge them from the guardhouse . `` They keep an ill watch in Dunwich now-a-days , '' grumbled Dick . `` Well , perchance there is one here to whom they can trust that business . ''