six o'clock
I had forgotten its exact words , but I did not wish to hear Potts read them . So I fled to spend the remainder of that eventful day quietly among rosebushes and tender , budding hyacinths , unspotted of the world , receiving , however , occasional bulletins of the orgy from passers-by . From these and sundry narratives gleaned the following day , I was able to trace the later hours of this scandalous saturnalia . By six o'clock Potts had spent all his money . By six-fifteen this fact could no longer be concealed , and such of his following as had not already fallen by the wayside crept , one by one , to rest . They left the Colonel dreamily , murmurously happy in a chair at the end of the City Hotel bar . Here , he was discovered about six-thirty by Eustace Eubanks , who had incautiously thought to rebuke him .