six in the evening
Prolonged pain brings on cruel thirst , and many a poor fellow suffered horribly from it during the last hours of his pillory . But in this case the salt he had swallowed made it more vehement . Most men go through life and never know thirst . It is a frightful torture , as any novice would have learned who had seen Carter at six in the evening of this cruel day . The poor wretch 's throat was so parched he could hardly breathe . His eyes were all bloodshot and his livid tongue lolled stringless and powerless out of his gasping mouth . He would have given diamonds for drops of water .