half past six
At six Crowder was summoned to one of the telephone booths in the city room . Robinson had inquired : during the time specified Wells Fargo and Company had suffered but one loss . This was on the twenty-sixth of August , when Knapp and Garland had held up the Rocky Bar stage and taken thousand dollars in coin consigned to the Greenhide Mine at Antelope . It was Crowder 's habit to dine at Philip 's Rôtisserie at half past six . They liked him at Philip 's . Madame at her desk , fat and gray-haired , with a bunch of pink roses at one elbow and a sleeping cat at the other , always had time for a chat with `` Monsieur Crowdare . '' Even Philip himself , in his chef 's cap and apron , would emerge from the kitchen and confer with the favored guest .