six o’clock
He did not , however , sleep very long . Shortly after dawn he was wide awake , and thinking busily about Jules . He was , indeed , very curious to know Jules ' story , and he determined , if the thing could be done at all , by persuasion or otherwise , to extract it from him . With a man of Theodore Racksole 's temperament there is no time like the present , and at six o'clock , as the bright morning sun brought gaiety into the window , he dressed and went upstairs again to the eighth storey . The commissionaire sat stolid , but alert on his chair , and , at the sight of his master , rose and saluted . ` Anything happened ? ' Racksole asked .