about two in the morning
Almost in the act of relaxing the elbow on which he had raised himself for this effort he dropped asleep to his pillow . For three hours he lay like a log . Then his troubled brain began to reassert itself . At about two in the morning he sat bolt upright in his bed . For twenty minutes or so he had been thinking rather than dreaming , yet with his thought held captive by sleep . He reached for his matchbox and struck a light ... . The whole world was after him , hunting him down , tearing down the house above his head !