one
o'clock
They were ordered to follow the huntsmen carefully . Again they crept through the night and approached the home of Wilkinson , the member of the Legislature from the County . Brown had carefully surveyed his place and felt sure of a successful attack unless the house should be alarmed by a surly dog which no member of his surveying party had been able to approach . When they arrived within two hundred yards of the gate , it was one o'clock . Brown carefully watched the house for ten minutes to see that no light gleamed through a window or a chink . The wife had been sick with the measles when the survey was made . There was no sign of a light .