night, about one o'clock
Instead , you make foolish prophecies . I 'll put no money into such tomfoolery . I 'm a practical man , ' and with that he stamped out of the laboratory . `` Well , that night , about one o'clock , in the silence of the lonely old house , the aged caretaker , Jane , whom he had hired after he banished his daughter from his life , heard a wild shout of ` Help ! Help ! ' Haswell , alone in his room on the second floor , was groping about in the dark . '' ` Jane , ' he ordered , ` a light -- a light . ' ''