five o'clock in the morning
Suspicion might not have been excited for a year after my death , and then would never , in all probability , have pointed to Bartram as the scene of the crime . The weeds would have grown over me , and I should have lain in that deep grave where the corpse of Madame de la Rougierre was unearthed in the darksome quadrangle of Bartram-Haugh . It was more than two years after that I heard what had befallen at Bartram after my flight . Old Wyat , who went early to Uncle Silas 's room , to her surprise -- for he had told her that he was that night to accompany his son , who had to meet the mailtrain to Derby at five o'clock in the morning -- saw her old master lying on the sofa , much in his usual position . ` There was nout much strange about him , ' old Wyat said , ` but that his scent-bottle was spilt on its side over on the table , and he dead . ' She thought he was not quite cold when she found him , and she sent the old butler for Doctor Jolks , who said he died of too much ` loddlum . ' Of my wretched uncle 's religion what am I to say ?