Eight
o'clock
He read it over several times -- `` Three forty-one , North Parker Street '' -- so that he would remember it , if the paper should be lost . `` I 'm glad Maku did n't write it in Japanese ! '' he exclaimed . When Orme was aroused by the ringing of his telephone-bell the next morning and heard the clerk 's voice , saying over the wire , `` Eight o'clock , sir , '' it seemed as if he had been asleep but a few minutes . During breakfast he reviewed the events of the preceding evening . Strange and varied though they had been , his thoughts chiefly turned to the girl herself , and he shaped all his plans with the idea of pleasing her . The work he had set for himself was to get the envelope and deliver it to the girl .