nearly midnight
Anyhow , he would put his chalk mark here to show how far he did get . He sneaked cautiously toward the fence to make it , then to his relief made out the Elm not twenty-five feet away . Once at the tree , he counted off the four panels westward and knew that he was opposite the grave of the suicide . It must now be nearly midnight . He thought he heard sounds not far away , and there across the road he saw a whitish thing -- the headstone . He was greatly agitated as he crawled quietly as possible toward it . Why quietly he did not know .