six o'clock in the morning
`` Take the carriage and fetch the doctor , '' cried Benedict . Hans understood everything , for in one glance he had seen all . He flung himself downstairs and into the carriage , calling out in his turn : `` To the doctor 's ! '' As it was scarcely six o'clock in the morning , the doctor was at home , and within ten minutes walked into the room . Seeing the blood streaming over the floor , Helen , half fainting , and , above all , Benedict compressing the wounded man 's arm , he understood what had happened , the rather that he had dreaded this . `` Ah , I foresaw this ! '' he exclaimed , `` a secondary hæmorrhage , the artery has given way . ''