nine o'clock
He went out in the course of the afternoon , and called at the registry office , where he chose some servants : a chauffeur , a coachman , a footman , a cook , and so on . Then he went to a photographer , who made a new copy of Mlle. Levasseur 's photograph . Don Luis had this touched up and faked it himself , so that the Prefect of Police should not perceive the substitution of one set of features for another . He dined at a restaurant and , at nine o'clock , joined Mazeroux on the Boulevard Suchet . Since the Fauville murders the house had been left in the charge of the porter . All the rooms and all the locks had been sealed up , except the inner door of the workroom , of which the police kept the keys for the purposes of the inquiry . The big study looked as it did before , though the papers had been removed and put away and there were no books and pamphlets left on the writing-table .