Christmas Eve midnight
`` Pooh ! pooh ! '' cried Link , with contempt . `` He did n't kill the man -- how could he , seeing he was at Hampstead on that Christmas Eve midnight , as I found out from his servants ? '' `` I do n't suspect him of actually striking the blow , '' replied Lucian , `` but I believe he knows who did . '' `` Not he ! Dr. Jorce has too responsible a position to mix himself up in a crime from which he gains no benefit . ''