six in the morning
Perhaps they were also startled by the girl 's still figure crouching by the bedside , and by the look on their mother 's face as she lay with her eyes closed , breathing hard and fast . They ceased to talk noisily , and crept over to a straw mattress on the floor which they shared together . When they next opened their eyes they were motherless . Mrs. Granger died between five and six in the morning ; and when the breath had quite left her body Bet arose , stretched herself , -- for she was quite stiff from sitting so long in one position , -- and going downstairs , woke a neighbor who occupied a room on the next floor . `` Mrs. Bennett , my mother is dead ; can you take care of the Cap'n and the Gen ` ral this morning ? I 'll pay you for it when I sell my papers to-night . '' Mrs. Bennett was a wrinkled old woman of about sixty-five .