eleven o'clock
Let it suffice that the business prospered greatly , while glowing reports of Tommy Tonker 's progress were sent from time to time to the old woman whose bonnet was lined with red in the labourious handwriting of Nuth . Nuth had given up lessons in writing very early , for he seemed to have some prejudice against forgery , and therefore considered writing a waste of time . And then there came the transaction with Lord Castlenorman at his Surrey residence . Nuth selected a Saturday night , for it chanced that Saturday was observed as Sabbath in the family of Lord Castlenorman , and by eleven o'clock the whole house was quiet . Five minutes before midnight Tommy Tonker , instructed by Mr. Nuth , who waited outside , came away with one pocketful of rings and shirt-studs . It was quite a light pocketful , but the jewellers in Paris could not match it without sending specially to Africa , so that Lord Castlenorman had to borrow bone shirt-studs . Not even rumour whispered the name of Nuth .