noon
Early abroad , Lanyard breakfasted with attention fixed to the advertising columns of the _ Herald _ , and by mid-morning was established as sub-tenant of a furnished bachelor apartment on Fifty-eighth Street near Seventh Avenue , a tiny nest of few rooms on the street level , with entrances from both the general lobby and the street direct : an admirable arrangement for one who might choose to come and go without supervision or challenge . Lacking local references as to his character , Lanyard was obliged to pay three months ' rent in advance in addition to making a substantial deposit to cover possible damage to the furnishings . His name , a spur-of-the-moment selection , was recorded in the lease as Anthony Ember . At noon he brought to his lodgings two trunks salvaged from a storage warehouse wherein they had been deposited more than three years since , on the eve of his flight with his family from America , an affair of haste and secrecy forbidding the handicap of heavy impedimenta . Thus Lanyard became once more possessor of a tolerably comprehensive wardrobe . But , those trunks released more than his personal belongings ; intermingled were possessions that had been his wife 's and his boy 's . As he unpacked , memories peopled those perfunctorily luxurious lodgings of the transient with melancholy ghosts as sweet and sad as lavender and rue .