about eight o’clock
In conclusion , and at a late hour , the same journal announced that the Chief of the Surete had telegraphed to the famous detective , Frederic Larsan , who had been sent to London for an affair of stolen securities , to return immediately to Paris . CHAPTER II . In Which Joseph Rouletabille Appears for the First Time I remember as well as if it had occurred yesterday , the entry of young Rouletabille into my bedroom that morning . It was about eight o'clock and I was still in bed reading the article in the `` Matin '' relative to the Glandier crime . But , before going further , it is time that I present my friend to the reader . I first knew Joseph Rouletabille when he was a young reporter . At that time I was a beginner at the Bar and often met him in the corridors of examining magistrates , when I had gone to get a `` permit to communicate '' for the prison of Mazas , or for Saint-Lazare .