about five in the afternoon
`` And as for Mr. Moss , '' she added , `` I do not think that he will ever appear again to trouble your little game . '' One morning , a little later in the summer , about the beginning of August , all Galway were terrified by the tidings of another murder . Mr. Morris had been killed , -- had been `` dropped , '' as the language of the country now went , from behind a wall built by the roadside . It had been done at about five in the afternoon , in full daylight ; and , as was surmised by the police , with the consciousness of many of the peasantry around . He had been walking along the road from Cong to his own house , and had been `` dropped , '' and left for dead by the roadside . Dead , indeed , he was when found . Not a word more would have been said about it , but for the intervention of the police , who were on the spot within three hours of the occurrence .