ten o'clock
But within four hours after dark we had got into a supernatural groove , and the Odd Girl had seen `` Eyes , '' and was in hysterics . My sister and I had agreed to keep the haunting strictly to ourselves , and my impression was , and still is , that I had not left Ikey , when he helped to unload the cart , alone with the women , or any one of them , for one minute . Nevertheless , as I say , the Odd Girl had `` seen Eyes '' -LRB- no other explanation could ever be drawn from her -RRB- , before nine , and by ten o'clock had had as much vinegar applied to her as would pickle a handsome salmon . I leave a discerning public to judge of my feelings , when , under these untoward circumstances , at about half-past ten o'clock Master B. 's bell began to ring in a most infuriated manner , and Turk howled until the house resounded with his lamentations ! I hope I may never again be in a state of mind so unchristian as the mental frame in which I lived for some weeks , respecting the memory of Master B. Whether his bell was rung by rats , or mice , or bats , or wind , or what other accidental vibration , or sometimes by one cause , sometimes another , and sometimes by collusion , I do n't know ; but , certain it is , that it did ring two nights out of three , until I conceived the happy idea of twisting Master B. 's neck -- in other words , breaking his bell short off -- and silencing that young gentleman , as to my experience and belief , for ever . But , by that time , the Odd Girl had developed such improving powers of catalepsy , that she had become a shining example of that very inconvenient disorder . She would stiffen , like a Guy Fawkes endowed with unreason , on the most irrelevant occasions .