six o'clock
Buenas noches , senor . '' I was much interested in the strange story I had heard , and lay for some time awake , trying to fit a working theory to the black chest and the Spanish dollars , but with no success . It was a puzzle that was worth a good deal of trouble to unlock if it could be done , and I was eager for daylight , to get a good view of the box . Probably the invalid would not be up so early as the rest of the family , who had breakfast , I had learned , at six o'clock . I was prompt upon the hour , and while waiting a few minutes before the meal was ready , I examined the silver piece and the chest . The coin was a large one , Spanish , as my host had said , and bore the inscription of Carlos III , with the date 1787 , and the arms of Castile and Le-n . The box I examined with special attention .