eleven o'clock
I 'm not one that can stand a billet in servants ' quarters , and I chose rather to put up at the little inn down by the bay and take my luck there . It was here that Biggs came after supper , and he and the motor expert got going on my high-tension magneto . Bless the pair of them , they might have been a month there , and no better off -- for , you must know that I had taken out the armature , and if you take out an armature and do n't slip a bit of soft iron in after it , your magnets are done for , and will never be worth anything again until they are re-magnetised . This baffled the pair of them , and they were there until after eleven o'clock , drinking enough beer to float a barge , and confessing that it was a mystery . `` Never see such a thing in ten years ' experience , '' said the motor expert . `` I 'm blowed if I do n't think the devil has got inside the magneto , '' said Biggs ; and there I agreed with him . For was n't it Miss Dolly who had done it , and is n't she -- but there , that would n't be polite to the sex , so I wo n't write it down .