three o'clock in the afternoon
I see that you have some light ones there , on the table . Just let him think that you smoked one of them . I promise to bring some more to-morrow , and we 'll have a couple together . ' That was what Logotheti said , and it comforted Mr. Feist , who recognised the opium at once ; all that afternoon and through all the next morning he told himself that he was to have another of those cigarettes , and perhaps two , at three o'clock in the afternoon , when Logotheti had said that he would come again . Before leaving his own rooms on the following day , the Greek put four cigarettes into his case , for he had not forgotten his promise ; he took two from a box that lay on the table , and placed them so that they would be nearest to his own hand when he offered his case , but he took the other two from a drawer which was always locked , and of which the key was at one end of his superornate watch-chain , and he placed them on the other side of the case , conveniently for a friend to take . All four cigarettes looked exactly alike . If any one had pointed out to him that an Englishman would not think it fair play to drug a man deliberately , Logotheti would have smiled and would have replied by asking whether it was fair play to accuse an innocent man of murder , a retort which would only become unanswerable if it could be proved that Van Torp was suspected unjustly .