two o'clock
He ended in a sort of glow of authorship , and after some thought took fifty pounds off the chamois . The letter finished , he put it in a much-used envelope addressed to Jimmy Conroy -- an envelope that stamped the whole episode as authentic , bearing as it did an undecipherable date and the postmark of a tiny village in the Austrian Tyrol . It was almost two when Peter put out the candle and settled himself to sleep . It was just two o'clock when the night nurse , making rounds in her ward in the general hospital , found a small boy very much awake on his pillow , and taking off her felt slipper shook it at him in pretended fury . `` Now , thou bad one ! '' she said . `` Awake , when the Herr Doktor orders sleep !