one o'clock
He had taken the risk knowingly , and with a certain indifference . It was the best plan , since , if he escaped alive , suspicion could not fall on him . Thus he argued , as he smoked his pipe with his back to the rock and waited for the morning . At one o'clock Walter Hine began to ramble . He took Garratt Skinner and Pierre Delouvain for Captain Barstow and Archie Parminter , and complained that it was ridiculous to sit up playing poker on so cold a night ; and while in his delirium he rambled and moaned , the morning began to break . But with the morning came a wind from the north , whirling the snow like smoke about the mountain-tops , and bitingly cold . Garratt Skinner with great difficulty stood up , slowly and with pain stretched himself to his full height , slapped his thighs , stamped with his feet , and then looked for a long while at his victim , without remorse , and without satisfaction .