one o'clock in the morning
He could not sleep ; he had known that he could not sleep . The wild and savage threat of Louis Ravengar , and the question , ` Which ? ' haunted his brain . At one o'clock in the morning he switched on all the lights , rose out of bed , and walked aimlessly about the chamber . Something , some morbid impulse , prompted him to take up the General Catalogue , which lay next to a priceless copy of the 1603 edition of Florio 's ` Montaigne . ' There were pages and pages about funerals in the General Catalogue , and forty fine photographic specimens of tombstones and monuments . ` Funerals conducted in town or country ... .