two in the morning
`` M. Fauville 's murderer or murderers , in touching the things on the table , knocked down the watch which M. Fauville had placed there . They put it back ; but the fall had stopped it . And it stopped at half-past twelve . '' `` Then , Chief , when we settled ourselves here , at two in the morning , it was a corpse that was lying beside us and another over our heads ? '' `` Yes . '' `` But how did those devils get in ? '' `` Through this door , which opens on the garden , and through the gate that opens on the Boulevard Suchet . ''