four o'clock in the morning
`` He is still enough now , Mr. Thorndyke . I should not be at all surprised if he has dropped off to sleep . He is hardened enough to sleep while the gibbet was waiting for him . '' It was four o'clock in the morning when they drove up at Bow Street . Two constables on duty came out to the cart . `` We have got a prisoner , Inspector , '' Chester said . `` He is the man we have been looking for so long .