five o’clock in the afternoon
At the same time , there was nothing which Peter Ruff felt that the man might not brazen out . His present mode of life seemed -- on the surface , at any rate -- to be beyond reproach . There was only one association which was distinctly questionable , and it was in this one direction , therefore , that Peter Ruff concentrated himself . The case , for some reason , interested him so much that he took a close and personal interest in it , and he was rewarded one day by discovering this enemy of Sir Richard 's sitting , toward five o'clock in the afternoon , in a cafe in Regent Street , engrossed in conversation with a person whom Peter Ruff knew to be a very black sheep indeed -- a man who had been tried for murder , and concerning whom there were still many unpleasant rumors . From behind his paper in a corner of the cafe , Peter Ruff watched these two men . Teddy Jones -- or Major Edward Jones , as it seemed he was now called -- was a person whose appearance no longer suggested the poverty against which he had been struggling most of his life . He was well dressed and tolerably well turned out .