about ten o’clock
He had not been in town exclusively to find the doctors those two days . Occasionally , while watching the dying child , he had been struck with the idea that if he could only find and bring down Pavel Pavlovitch she might hear his voice and be called back , as it were , from the darkness of delirium ; at such moments he had been seized with desperation , and twice he had started up and driven wildly off to town in order to find Pavel Pavlovitch . The latter 's room was the same as before , but it was useless to look for him there , for , according to Maria Sisevna 's report , he was now two or three days absent from home at a stretch , and was generally to be found with some friends in the Voznecensky . Arrived in town about ten o'clock , Velchaninoff went straight to these latter people , and securing the services of a member of the family to assist in finding Pavel Pavlovitch , set out on his quest . He did not know what he should do with Pavel Pavlovitch when found , whether he should kill him then and there , or simply inform him of the death of the child , and of the necessity for his assistance in arranging for her funeral . After a long and fruitless search Velchaninoff found Pavel Pavlovitch quite accidentally ; he was quarrelling with some person in the street -- tipsy as usual , and seemed to be getting the worst of the controversy , which appeared to be about a money claim . On catching sight of Velchaninoff , Pavel Pavlovitch stretched out his arms to him and begged for help ; while his opponent -- observing Velchaninoff 's athletic figure -- made off .