six o'clock
Vogt stuck to his demand , but he declined to give any reasons . On the day of the election the turnpike-keeper was troubled with a feverish unrest . Ten times and more he put on his hat and stood at the house door with his big stick in his hand , but he always turned back again . The polling was to end at six o'clock . Shortly before that hour he strung himself up to a resolve . He left the house hastily , and hurried to the ale-house , in the garden of which the polling-booth had been erected . Before the door stood the two men who were distributing voting-papers .