eleven o'clock
Thus it was only for a few moments that I distinctly saw the outline of her figure . Her face I did not see at all . `` I went back to the hotel and sat by the fire trying to read a newspaper , but unable to chain my thoughts to the page . Mr. Carter came in a little before eleven o'clock . He was in very high spirits , and drank a tumbler of steaming brandy-and-water with great gusto . But question him how I might , I could get nothing from him except that he meant to have a search made for the dead man 's clothes . `` I asked him why he wanted them , and what advantage would be gained by the finding of them , but he only nodded his head significantly , and told me to wait .