six o'clock
The young man was forced to go away with this assurance . He returned home , but not to sleep . He wondered vaguely if he had been wise to lean upon so frail a reed as Fogerty seemed to be ; and above all he wondered where poor Louise was , and if terror and alarm were breaking her heart . Charlie Mershone had no difficulty in securing his release when Parker came on duty at six o'clock . He called up a cab and went at once to his rooms at the Bruxtelle ; and Fogerty followed him . While he discarded his dress-coat , took a bath and donned his walking suit Mershone was in a brown study . Hours ago Louise had been safely landed at the East Orange house and placed in the care of old Madame Cerise , who would guard her like an ogre .