About nine o'clock
The bright spirits of Orison Swett Marden and Ralph Waldo Trine , Dioscuri of Good Cheer , seemed to be with him reminding him that nothing is impossible . In a small restaurant he found sausages , griddle cakes and syrup . When he got back to Gissing Street it was dark , and he girded his soul for further endeavour . About nine o'clock he walked up the alley . He had left his overcoat in his room at Mrs. Schiller 's and also the Cromwell bookcover -- having taken the precaution , however , to copy the inscriptions into his pocket memorandum-book . He noticed lights in the rear of the bookshop , and concluded that the Mifflins and their employee had got home safely . Arrived at the back of Weintraub 's pharmacy , he studied the contours of the building carefully .