eleven o'clock
And indeed it was fine and stirring to hear the Paladin rehearse his deeds and see him pile his dead , fifteen here , eighteen there , and thirty-five yonder ; but this only postponed the trouble ; it could not do more . He could not go on forever ; when he had carried the bastille by assault and eaten up the garrison there was nothing for it but to stop , unless Catherine Boucher would give him a new start and have it all done over again -- as we hoped she would , this time -- but she was otherwise minded . As soon as there was a good opening and a fair chance , she brought up her unwelcome subject , and we faced it the best we could . We followed her and her parents to the haunted room at eleven o'clock , with candles , and also with torches to place in the sockets on the walls . It was a big house , with very thick walls , and this room was in a remote part of it which had been left unoccupied for nobody knew how many years , because of its evil repute . This was a large room , like a salon , and had a big table in it of enduring oak and well preserved ; but the chair were worm-eaten and the tapestry on the walls was rotten and discolored by age . The dusty cobwebs under the ceiling had the look of not having had any business for a century .