six o’clock
On him I staked all my chances . I went into the darkened smoking-room where the rays of morning light were beginning to creep through the shutters . There I breakfasted off a whisky-and-soda and some biscuits from the cupboard . By this time it was getting on for six o'clock . I put a pipe in my pocket and filled my pouch from the tobacco jar on the table by the fireplace . As I poked into the tobacco my fingers touched something hard , and I drew out Scudder 's little black pocket-book ... . That seemed to me a good omen .