about nine o'clock
You ca n't tell how many men there may be in the world capable of a crime at a given moment . Did you know that this little girl had disappeared ? '' And with the end of his stick he touched one after the other the stiffened fingers of the corpse , resting on them as on the keys of a piano . `` Yes , the mother came last night to look for me about nine o'clock , the child not having come home from supper up to seven . We went to try and find her along the roads up to midnight , but we did not think of the wood . However , we needed daylight to carry out a search with a practical result . '' `` Will you have a cigar ? ''