midnight
On the fourth day after my arrival you came to me , and said that the story must be finished at the very latest by October 15th , and I assured you that you should have it by that time . That night I set about it . I mapped it out , incident by incident , and before starting up to bed had actually written some twelve or fifteen hundred words of the opening chapter -- it was to be told in four chapters . When I had gone thus far I experienced a slight return of one of my nervous chills , and , on consulting my watch , discovered that it was after midnight , which was a sufficient explanation of my nervousness : I was merely tired . I arranged my manuscripts on my table so that I might easily take up the work the following morning . I locked up the windows and doors , turned out the lights , and proceeded up-stairs to my room . -LSB- Illustration : `` FACE TO FACE '' -RSB- _ It was then that I first came face to face with myself -- that other self , in which I recognized , developed to the full , every bit of my capacity for an evil life .