eleven o'clock
The sweets and anxieties of a leader were mine the rest of the afternoon . Directly after twilight set in Phil Adams stole down to the wharf and fixed the fuses to the guns , laying a train of powder from the principal fuse to the fence , through a chink of which I was to drop the match at midnight . At ten o'clock Rivermouth goes to bed . At eleven o'clock Rivermouth is as quiet as a country churchyard . At twelve o'clock there is nothing left with which to compare the stillness that broods over the little seaport . In the midst of this stillness I arose and glided out of the house like a phantom bent on an evil errand ; like a phantom . I flitted through the silent street , hardly drawing breath until I knelt down beside the fence at the appointed place .