six o’clock
Schmucke made answer , trembling from head to foot , and was forthwith summoned together with Pons , to appear in the county court to hear judgment against him . The sight of the bailiff and a bit of stamped paper covered with scrawls produced such an effect upon Schmucke , that he held out no longer . `` Sell die bictures , '' he said , with tears in his eyes . Next morning , at six o'clock , Elie Magus and Remonencq took down the paintings of their choice . Two receipts for two thousand five hundred francs were made out in correct form : -- `` I , the undersigned , representing M. Pons , acknowledge the receipt of two thousand five hundred francs from M. Elie Magus for the four pictures sold to him , the said sum being appropriated to the use of M. Pons . The first picture , attributed to Durer , is a portrait of a woman ; the second , likewise a portrait , is of the Italian School ; the third , a Dutch landscape by Breughel ; and the fourth , a _ Holy Family _ by an unknown master of the Florentine School . '' Remonencq 's receipt was worded in precisely the same way ; a Greuze , a Claude Lorraine , a Rubens , and a Van Dyck being disguised as pictures of the French and Flemish schools .