one o'clock on Saturday
The steep was so great that , having reached the wicket , she stopped a moment to breathe ; and , looking back upon the water-side cot , saw the hangman again ascending his outdoor staircase . He entered the loft or chamber to which it led , and in a few minutes extinguished his light . The town clock struck ten , and she returned to the White Hart as she had come . It was one o'clock on Saturday . Gertrude Lodge , having been admitted to the jail as above described , was sitting in a waiting-room within the second gate , which stood under a classic archway of ashlar , then comparatively modern , and bearing the inscription , ` COVNTY JAIL : 1793 . ' This had been the facade she saw from the heath the day before . Near at hand was a passage to the roof on which the gallows stood .