eight o’clock
Well , here 's the story . Early on the third day after the murder , when they were still dandling Koch and Pestryakov -- though they accounted for every step they took and it was as plain as a pikestaff -- an unexpected fact turned up . A peasant called Dushkin , who keeps a dram-shop facing the house , brought to the police office a jeweller 's case containing some gold ear-rings , and told a long rigamarole . ` The day before yesterday , just after eight o'clock ' -- mark the day and the hour ! -- ` a journeyman house-painter , Nikolay , who had been in to see me already that day , brought me this box of gold ear-rings and stones , and asked me to give him two roubles for them . When I asked him where he got them , he said that he picked them up in the street . I did not ask him anything more . '