Ten o'clock
`` Ah , that I will , '' she said . She was no sooner gone than they all stole out into the night , and a pitch dark night it was ; but Green had a powerful dark lantern to use if necessary . They waited , Green at the gate of Musgrove Cottage , the other two a little way up the road . Ten o'clock struck . Some minutes passed without the expected signal from Green ; and Edward and Sampson began to shiver . For it was very cold and dark , and in the next place they were honest men going to take the law into their own hands and the law sometimes calls that breaking the law . `` Confound him ! ''