ten o'clock
It was Alick Robbins who named the invalid the Living Skeleton , and probably remorse for having thus given him a title so descriptively accurate , caused him to make friends with the Living Skeleton , a man who seemed to have no friends . Robbins never forgot their first conversation . It happened in this way . It was the habit of the Living Skeleton to leave his hotel every morning promptly at ten o'clock , if the sun was shining , and to shuffle rather than walk down the gravel street to the avenue of palms . There , picking out a seat on which the sun shone , the Living Skeleton would sit down and seem to wait patiently for someone who never came . He wore a shawl around his neck and a soft cloth cap on his skull . Every bone in his face stood out against the skin , for there seemed to be no flesh , and his clothes hung as loosely upon him as they would have upon a skeleton .