eight o'clock
You know where he lives ; go and find him . Then make sure that Braddock is at Dick Cronk 's room . That 's all . '' At half-past eight o'clock that evening Ernie Cronk stole up the stairway in the rear of Broads 's saloon . He slunk down the narrow , dimly-lighted hallway until he came to a door which bore the numeral five . For a full minute he stood there irresolute , held inactive by the two mental elements that bear such close kinship to each other -- apprehension and greed . At last , with a stealthy glance at the lighted transoms down the hall , he tapped on the panel of the door .