nearly eleven o'clock
He thought it prudent to make a detour , so he turned east on Wordsworth Avenue until he reached Whittier Street , then sauntered easily down Whittier for a block , spying sharply for evidences of pursuit . Brooklyn was putting out its lights for the night , and all was quiet . He turned into Hazlitt Street and so back onto Gissing , noticing now that the Haunted Bookshop lights were off . It was nearly eleven o'clock : the last audience was filing out of the movie theatre , where two workmen were already perched on ladders taking down the Tarzan electric light sign , to substitute the illuminated lettering for the next feature . After some debate he decided that the best thing to do was to return to his room at Mrs. Schiller 's , from which he could keep a sharp watch on the front door of the bookshop . By good fortune there was a lamp post almost directly in front of Mifflin 's house , which cast plenty of light on the little sunken area before the door . With his opera glasses he could see from his bedroom whatever went on .