two in the morning
But his sufferings during the period of driving the alcohol out of his system were truly heroic . Even when the last shred of the poison was exuded , the desire , as an obsession , remained in his head . So it was , when , on his honour , he went ashore at Apia , that he attempted to put the public houses out of business by drinking up their stocks in trade . And so it was , at two in the morning , that David Grief found him in front of the Tivoli , out of which he had been disorderly thrown by Charley Roberts . Aloysius , as of old , was chanting his sorrows to the stars . Also , and more concretely , he was punctuating the rhythm with cobbles of coral stone , which he flung with amazing accuracy through Charley Roberts 's windows . David Grief took him away , but not till next morning did he take him in hand .