about two o'clock in the morning
`` Of course it is , my fine fellow , '' said the cosmopolitan . `` All safe . Well . Now , about two o'clock in the morning , say , a soft-handed gentleman comes softly and tries the knob here -- thus ; in creeps my soft-handed gentleman ; and hey , presto ! how comes on the soft cash ? '' `` I see , I see , child , '' said the old man ; `` your fine gentleman is a fine thief , and there 's no lock to your little door to keep him out ; '' with which words he peered at it more closely than before . `` Well , now , '' again showing his white teeth , `` well , now , some of you old folks are knowing ` uns , sure enough ; but now comes the great invention , '' producing a small steel contrivance , very simple but ingenious , and which , being clapped on the inside of the little door , secured it as with a bolt .