about four o'clock
` If necessary , wreck the train , ' he repeated . And he rose and returned to the house . The next morning there was a most unusual outcry , in the Doctor 's house . The last thing before going to bed , the Doctor had locked up some valuables in the dining-room cupboard ; and behold , when he rose again , as he did about four o'clock , the cupboard had been broken open , and the valuables in question had disappeared . Madame and Jean-Marie were summoned from their rooms , and appeared in hasty toilets ; they found the Doctor raving , calling the heavens to witness and avenge his injury , pacing the room bare-footed , with the tails of his night-shirt flirting as he turned . ` Gone ! ' he said ; ` the things are gone , the fortune gone !