about eight o'clock
He walked rapidly and before long was in Conduit Street , and without stopping to wait for admittance , entered a large yellow house . Two hours later he left and hastened to a telegraph office . But Stonewell was not the only visitor that day who entered this large yellow house on Conduit Street . For at about eight o'clock that evening a man in civilian garb , wearing a moustache and heavy pointed beard , with a brown slouch hat drawn low over his forehead , and in closely buttoned sack coat , went to the same house , and without hesitation , opened the door by a pass key and passed inside . A hop was given that Saturday night at the Armory . There was nothing particularly noteworthy about this hop ; it was just like hundreds of its predecessors . As usual , near graduation time , there were many out of town visitors , and it is likely that brass buttons proved attractive to them .