four in the morning
The next thing was to get the money ; and where do you think he carried us but to that place with the door ? -- whipped out a key , went in , and presently came back with the matter of ten pounds in gold and a cheque for the balance on Coutts 's , drawn payable to bearer and signed with a name that I ca n't mention , though it 's one of the points of my story , but it was a name at least very well known and often printed . The figure was stiff ; but the signature was good for more than that , if it was only genuine . I took the liberty of pointing out to my gentleman that the whole business looked apocryphal , and that a man does not , in real life , walk into a cellar-door at four in the morning and come out of it with another man 's cheque for close upon a hundred pounds . But he was quite easy and sneering . ` Set your mind at rest , ' says he , ` I will stay with you till the banks open and cash the cheque myself . ' So we all set off , the doctor , and the child 's father , and our friend and myself , and passed the rest of the night in my chambers ; and next day , when we had breakfasted , went in a body to the bank .