four in the afternoon
As she said , the cards had nothing on them but the bare numbers , so that a person getting one of the cards would not know that the numbers referred to the safe combination . `` It took me several days to get rid of the old stocks , and while I was doing that I , from time to time , purchased the bonds , buying them , on the advice of Mr. Powell , from several bond houses in Wall Street . I also bought a brand new japanned box with a little lock , and placed the bonds in that box , and then put the box in the safe . The last I saw of the bonds was about half-past four in the afternoon , when I placed the last of the bonds in the box . I came down to the office at a little before ten o'clock the next morning , and opened the safe about half an hour later . Then the box was gone . '' `` Wait a minute , Dick , '' interrupted Tom .