Eleven o'clock
He made innumerable trips across the room to the windows to look out into the bleak night . The landscape was blotted out . Not a light showed from the House on the Dunes ; only the two lamps on the schooner at anchor in the Cove gleamed across the night . Eleven o'clock , twelve o'clock struck solemnly from the old clock on the stairs . Once as he was looking out of the window , it seemed to him that the green light on the _ Southern Cross _ was moving . But it was impossible that she should weigh anchor in the teeth of the rising storm . He was mistaken .