twelve o'clock
With the task which she had set herself and the uncertainty before her she felt that there was not . Yet to keep silence troubled her . Until recently there had never been a secret between her uncles and herself ; now there were secrets on both sides . At twelve o'clock on a night late in the following week Captain Shadrach , snoring gloriously in his bed , was awakened by his partner 's entering the room bearing a lighted lamp . The Captain blinked , raised himself on his elbow , looked at his watch which was on the chair by the bed 's head , and then demanded in an outraged whisper : `` What in the nation are you prowlin ' around this hour of the night for ? You do n't want to talk about those divilish bills and credits and things , I hope . What 's the use ?