nine o’clock
Thus this detail , which might have been very useful to me became for the moment absolutely worthless . I returned home , persuading myself that a pathetic letter addressed to the refractory Bricheteau would induce him to receive me . Mingling with my entreaties the touch of a threat , I let him know that I was firmly resolved at all costs to get to the bottom of the mystery which weighed upon my life ; the secret of which he evidently knew . The next morning , before nine o'clock , I went to his house , only to learn that after paying the rent to the end of his term , he had packed up his furniture and left the house in the early morning , without the porter being able to discover from the men who removed his property -LRB- well-paid to keep silence , no doubt -RRB- where they were ordered to carry it . These men being strangers in the quarter , it was quite impossible to discover them later . I felt , however , that I still had a clue to him , through the organ at Saint-Louis , and the following Sunday after high mass I posted myself as before at the door of the organ loft , determined not to let go of the sphinx until I had made him speak . But here again , disappointment !