ten o'clock
By the time we had done with him he knew more about that statue , for the time being , than he knew about anything else . We soaked him in that statue , and only let him go at last on the condition that he would come again with us in the morning , when we could all see it better , and for such purpose we saw to it that he made a note in his pocket-book of the place where the statue stood . Then we accompanied him to his favourite beer hall , and sat beside him , telling him anecdotes of men who , unaccustomed to German beer , and drinking too much of it , had gone mad and developed homicidal mania ; of men who had died young through drinking German beer ; of lovers that German beer had been the means of parting for ever from beautiful girls . At ten o'clock we started to walk back to the hotel . It was a stormy - looking night , with heavy clouds drifting over a light moon . Harris said : `` We wo n't go back the same way we came ; we 'll walk back by the river . It is lovely in the moonlight . ''