nine o'clock
But , as already stated , everybody behaved . Schmuck , who managed the saloon , was a giant of a man , a Turnvereiner , who could hold his own with any man in town . It will be understood that the orderliness was therefore due to a respect for Schmuck 's strength , and not to any inclination to be orderly . On this night , then , at nine o'clock , a man entered and approached the bar . He was sharp-eyed , lean-faced , with a heavy blue beard closely shaven , saving the mustache , which was black and hung over the man 's lips . He wore good clothes . There was a large diamond on one of his fingers and another in the bosom of his shirt , in which a white tie was tucked carefully .