About eleven at night
`` Yes , he shall have his opportunity . If he attacks me I will respond . '' As Wilson was leaving , he said -- `` The Judge is still a little used up by his campaign work , and will not get out for a day or so ; but when he does get out , you want to be on the alert . '' About eleven at night the twins went out for exercise , and started on a long stroll in the veiled moonlight . Tom Driscoll had landed at Hackett 's Store , two miles below Dawson 's , just about half an hour earlier , the only passenger for that lonely spot , and had walked up the shore road and entered Judge Driscoll 's house without having encountered any one either on the road or under the roof . He pulled down his window-blinds and lighted his candle . He laid off his coat and hat and began his preparations .