12 o'clock
Perhaps he would laugh when he received it . The card had been placed there during my absence . Jim would tell me about it in the morning , so I gave the matter no further consideration . By that time , 12 o'clock , the detectives must have had Tescheron talked tired , I guessed , and he was probably at home trying to figure how he might escape the coroner 's ordeal of publicity on the morrow , unless , of course , they knew this man cremated his victims right after the service . It so happened that the detectives had him fairly crazy . When he read my message he was completely daft . Instead of working out my plans carefully , so as to achieve a complete fourth-act reconciliation by 6 o'clock , I spent the night answering and sending messages like a general looking through a telescope on a hill-top .