midnight
The proprietor , returning from the station , had a dreadful beacon to guide him . All Montmorency turned out of doors to assist in extinguishing the conflagration . Not often does the quiet suburb treat itself to such spectacles , and when , to that sensation , was added that of three dead bodies dragged from the shattered drawing-room where every thing else was consumed , it may be believed that the night was memorable . The Daniels were telegraphed to at Paris , and they returned before midnight . They alone knew that the grief of Clemenceau was given to Antonino and not to his wife , but the lookers-on were deceived , and many a man , returning to his slippers and the evening journal , scolded his wife for having repeated baseless scandals about the proprietor of the Reine-Claude Villa living on cool terms with his unfortunate wife . The coroner of Montmorency did not display any broad perception of the tragedy , although the superfluity of eight inches of Sendlingen 's steel in the side of a young man pronounced dead by asphyxia would have struck one of the laity . But the reporters of the Paris press were more perspicacious .