two o'clock on Thursday
You must kindly remember that I do not vouch for the literal accuracy of everything told me by Aristide Pujol . The question of the all-important meeting between the millionaire and the managing director then arose . As Aristide was at St. Étienne it was arranged that they should meet at a halfway stage on the latter 's journey from Perpignan to Marseilles . The Hôtel du Luxembourg at Nîmes was the place , and two o'clock on Thursday the time appointed . Meantime Aristide had found that the deaf ironmaster had died months ago . This was a disappointment , but fortune compensated him . This part of his adventure is somewhat vague , but I gathered that he was lured by a newly made acquaintance into a gambling den , where he won the prodigious sum of two thousand francs .