one o’clock
And as this was so , he did not care a -- Little Bonsa about anything else . The future must look to itself , sufficient to the day was the abiding joy thereof . So he went to bed and for a while to sleep , but he did not sleep very long , for presently he fell to dreaming , something about Big Bonsa and Little Bonsa which sat , or rather floated on either side of his couch and held an interminable conversation over him , while Jeekie and Sir Robert Aylward , perched respectively at its head and its foot , like the symbols of the good and evil genii on a Mahommedan tomb , acted as a kind of insane chorus . He struck his repeater , it was only one o'clock , so he tried to go to sleep again , but failed utterly . Never had he been more painfully awake . For an hour or more Alan persevered , then at last in despair he jumped out of bed wondering what he could do to occupy his mind . Suddenly he remembered the diary of his uncle , the Rev. Mr. Austin , which he had inherited with the Yellow God and a few other possessions , but never examined .