about twelve
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`` And Lejay ? '' `` He came in only last week , having leased the house for six months . His family were to have joined him in a day or two , and he , with the aid of the pair I have just mentioned , and assisted by a French servant he brought over with him , was putting the place in order . At about twelve o'clock on Friday night this servant ran into a neighboring house screaming ` the fiery hand ! ' and when at last a constable arrived and a frightened group went up the avenue of the Gables , they found M. Lejay , dead in the avenue , near the steps just outside the hall door ! He had the same face of horror ... '' `` What a tale for the press ! '' snapped Smith .