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o'clock
By that time , 12 o'clock , the detectives must have had Tescheron talked tired , I guessed , and he was probably at home trying to figure how he might escape the coroner 's ordeal of publicity on the morrow , unless , of course , they knew this man cremated his victims right after the service . It so happened that the detectives had him fairly crazy . When he read my message he was completely daft . Instead of working out my plans carefully , so as to achieve a complete fourth-act reconciliation by 6 o'clock , I spent the night answering and sending messages like a general looking through a telescope on a hill-top . The first lad in blue uniform came just about midnight and scared me a little , but as Jim was not disturbed , all was well . It seems that instead of going to bed , Pa Tescheron took a new start as soon as he read my message about notifying the coroner . Smith was called again to meet him at the Fifth Avenue Hotel , about fifteen minutes by messenger boy from my headquarters .