three
o'clock in the morning
After all this there was the great outer wall to climb up and drop down from on the other side . We managed to pick our night well . A French convict , who liked that sort of thing , gave me the means of undoing the cell door . It was three o'clock in the morning , when in winter most people are sleepy that have n't much on their minds . The warder that came down the passage was n't likely to be asleep , but he might have made it up in his mind that all was right , and not taken as much notice as usual . This was what we trusted to . Besides , we had got a few five-pound notes smuggled in to us ; and though I would n't say that we were able to bribe any of the gaolers , we did n't do ourselves any harm in one or two little ways by throwing a few sovereigns about .