two in the morning
Somehow she never had been able to persuade herself that the man next door , whatever else he might be , had really committed that brutal murder . `` No , there 's no actual witness , but it could be proved by circumstantial evidence . K-19 , the man whose work you took up , had instructions to shadow young Hoff to his home . At two in the morning he relieved another operative . At three you yourself saw him shadowing Hoff . '' `` I saw two men on the sidewalk , '' corrected Jane . `` One of them was Frederic Hoff .