three in the morning
One of the men was named Bellows , John Bellows , and it turned out that he had known Jennie Brice very well . From the moment he learned that , Mr. Holcombe hardly left him . He walked to the theater with him and waited to walk home again . He took him out to restaurants and for long street-car rides in the mornings , and on the last night of their stay , Saturday , they got gloriously drunk together -- Mr. Holcombe , no doubt , in his character of Ladley -- and came reeling in at three in the morning , singing . Mr. Holcombe was very sick the next day , but by Monday he was all right , and he called me into the room . `` We 've got him , Mrs. Pitman , '' he said , looking mottled but cheerful . `` As sure as God made little fishes , we 've got him . ''