about
one o'clock at night
In insufferable distress , trembling every instant and wondering at himself , alternately groaning aloud and numb with terror , he managed to exist till eleven o'clock next morning locked in and lying on the sofa ; then came the shock he was awaiting , and it at once determined him . When he unlocked his door and went out to his household at eleven o'clock they told him that the runaway convict and brigand , Fedka , who was a terror to every one , who had pillaged churches and only lately been guilty of murder and arson , who was being pursued and could not be captured by our police , had been found at daybreak murdered , five miles from the town , at a turning off the high road , and that the whole town was talking of it already . He rushed headlong out of the house at once to find out further details , and learned , to begin with , that Fedka , who had been found with his skull broken , had apparently been robbed and , secondly , that the police already had strong suspicion and even good grounds for believing that the murderer was one of the Shpigulin men called Fomka , the very one who had been his accomplice in murdering the Lebyadkins and setting fire to their house , and that there had been a quarrel between them on the road about a large sum of money stolen from Lebyadkin , which Fedka was supposed to have hidden . Liputin ran to Pyotr Stepanovitch 's lodgings and succeeded in learning at the back door , on the sly , that though Pyotr Stepanovitch had not returned home till about one o'clock at night , he had slept there quietly all night till eight o'clock next morning . Of course , there could be no doubt that there was nothing extraordinary about Fedka 's death , and that such careers usually have such an ending ; but the coincidence of the fatal words that `` it was the last time Fedka would drink vodka , '' with the prompt fulfilment of the prediction , was so remarkable that Liputin no longer hesitated . The shock had been given ; it was as though a stone had fallen upon him and crushed him forever . Returning home , he thrust his travelling-bag under the bed without a word , and in the evening at the hour fixed he was the first to appear at the appointed spot to meet Shatov , though it 's true he still had his passport in his pocket .