about midnight
Surely there might be some means found by which the man might be frightened into compliance . But there he sat , -- and did nothing . And in the evening he ate a solitary mutton chop at The Jolly Blackbird , because he could not bear to face even his club , and then returned to his chambers , -- to the great disgust of the old woman who had them in charge at nights . And at about midnight he crept away to his own house , a wretched old man . Lopez when he left Manchester Square did not go in search of a new home for himself and his wife , nor during the whole of the day did he trouble himself on that subject . He spent most of the day at the rooms in Coleman Street of the San Juan Mining Association , of which Mr. Mills Happerton had once been Chairman . There was now another Chairman and other Directors ; but Mr. Mills Happerton 's influence had so far remained with the Company as to enable Lopez to become well known in the Company 's offices , and acknowledged as a claimant for the office of resident Manager at San Juan in Guatemala .