about four o'clock
Then it was asked who had seen him last , and Robert Oakshott spoke of having parted with him at the bonfire , and never seen him again . There , I fancy , it would have ended in a verdict of wilful murder against some person or persons unknown , but Robert Oakshott must needs say , `` I would give a hundred pounds to know who the villain was . '' And then who should get up but George Rackstone , with `` Please your Honour , I could tell summat . '' The coroner bade swear him , and he deposed to having seen Master Peregrine going down towards the castle somewhere about four o'clock that morning after the bonfire when he was getting up to go to his mowing . But that was not all . You remember , Anne , that his father 's cottage stands on the road towards Portsmouth . Well , he brought up the story of your running in there , frightened , the day before the bonfire , when I was praying with his sick mother , calling on me to stop a fray between Peregrine and young Sedley , and I had to get up and tell of Sedley 's rudeness to you , child . ''