ten o'clock
said Monty . But it turned out she would not be let alone . We dine in the public room , but she had her meals sent up to her and we flattered ourselves -LRB- or I did -RRB- that her net had been laid in vain . Folk dine late in the tropics , and we dallied over coffee and cigars , so that it was going on for ten o'clock when Yerkes and I started upstairs again . Monty and Fred went out to see the waterfront by moonlight . We had reached our door -LRB- he and I shared one great room -RRB- when we heard terrific screams from the floor above -- a woman 's -- one after another , piercing , fearful , hair-raising , and so suggestive in that gloomy , grim building that a man 's very blood stood still . Yerkes was the first upstairs .