About nine o'clock
He identified the murdered man as his son . He confessed to his having returned that night after his quarrel with Paul , when he had seemed much disturbed . Two letters awaited him , both of which he had read and then destroyed by throwing them into the fire . About nine o'clock he went out , saying that he was going to his club . Since that time he had never been seen alive . Where he had gone he could not tell ; certain it is he never came home again . He told of the feud which had existed between his son and Paul Stepaside .