two o'clock
For some time he walked the deserted streets of the city , thinking and puzzling over the possibility of Gregory 's being right . Sometime after midnight he went back to the office and to the filing room . There , for two hours , he sat reading closely old files of the paper , going through them methodically and making occasional brief notes in a memorandum . Then , at two o'clock he put away the files , and sitting back , lighted a cigar . It was all there ; the enormous Clark fortune inherited by a boy who had gone mad about this same Beverly Carlysle ; her marriage to her leading man , Howard Lucas ; the subsequent killing of Lucas by Clark at his Wyoming ranch , and Clark 's escape into the mountains . The sensational details of Clark 's infatuation , the drama of a crime and Clark 's subsequent escape , and the later certainty of his death in a mountain storm had filled the newspapers of the time for weeks . Judson Clark had been famous , notorious , infamous and dead , all in less than two years .