three o'clock
At the request of Mrs. Johns , one of the party on board , I had moved to the after house to sleep , putting my blanket and pillow in the storeroom and sleeping on the floor there . Mrs. Johns gave , as her reason , a fear of something going wrong , as there was trouble between Mr. Turner and the captain . I slept with a revolver beside me and with the door of the storeroom open . At some time shortly before three o'clock I wakened with a feeling of suffocation , and found that the door was closed and locked on the outside . I suspected a joke among the crew , and set to work with my pen-knife to unscrew the lock . When I had two screws out , a woman screamed , and I broke down the door . As the main cabin was dark , I saw no one and could not tell where the cry came from .