about one o’clock a.m
` Well , supposing you were on sentry duty and some meddlesome person in camp asked you what you were doing -- what should you say ? ' ` I should tell him to clear off or take the consequences , and pretty quick too . ' ` Do that to-morrow morning , then , if necessary , ' said Racksole , and departed . It was then about one o'clock a.m. . The millionaire retired to bed -- not his own bed , but a bed on the seventh storey . He did not , however , sleep very long . Shortly after dawn he was wide awake , and thinking busily about Jules .