four o’clock
in the morning
said Rex . ` Let us go and fight . ' And they filed out into the narrow street , silently and quietly , in fear of attracting attention to their movements . The scene presented by the Palmengarten restaurant at four o'clock in the morning was extremely strange . Since Greif and Rex had dined together in the place on the previous evening , the arrangement of the hall had been considerably changed . The palms alone remained in their places around the four sides , and their long spiked leaves and gigantic fans cast fantastic shadows under the brilliant gaslight . The broad marble floor was cleared of furniture and strewn with sawdust , some fifty chairs being arranged at the upper end of the room , around and behind the fountain , whose tiny stream rose high into the air and tinkled as it fell back again into the basin below .