four o’clock
He had spoken to him just before Mitya met the landlord in the balcony , looking for him in the dark , and noticed at once a change in Trifon Borissovitch 's face and voice . So neither Mitya nor any one else knew that he was being watched . The box with the pistols had been carried off by Trifon Borissovitch and put in a suitable place . Only after four o'clock , almost at sunrise , all the officials , the police captain , the prosecutor , the investigating lawyer , drove up in two carriages , each drawn by three horses . The doctor remained at Fyodor Pavlovitch 's to make a post‐mortem next day on the body . But he was particularly interested in the condition of the servant , Smerdyakov . `` Such violent and protracted epileptic fits , recurring continually for twenty‐four hours , are rarely to be met with , and are of interest to science , '' he declared enthusiastically to his companions , and as they left they laughingly congratulated him on his find .