eleven o’clock
To Sergeant Schultz , rigid in the doorway , he snapped an order to have fifty lashes given to the `` clumsy dog . '' Sentences were harsher than usual that morning . All the native world about him knew that a demon had taken possession of the Eater-of-men ; he was usually inhabited by an evil spirit , but this time the demon of Bakra who , as everybody knows , tears the vitals with hot claws , making the victim to have fits , to foam at the mouth , to be quite mad , had entered the white man . Bakunjala , coming to the Court House with vermouth and biscuits at eleven o'clock , distinctly saw the devil glaring through zu Pfeiffer 's eyes , and was so scared that he let fall the tray , which was the reason that he also was doomed to have twenty-five lashes that evening . Even the stolid Sergeant Schultz remarked that the Herr Lieutenant had gotten a touch of the sun ; but the grizzled Schneider , who came from Luthuania , opined that the Herr Kommandant had left his table knife edge uppermost . When zu Pfeiffer went across to tiffin the hot sun had dried up the gutters and the plot of grass . He did not return to the Court House , much to the gratitude of many innocent and guilty .