noon
The rest would be simplicity . He had merely to slip out of the hotel , carrying the key to 1734 with him . Certainly it would be as late as noon the following day before chambermaid or clerk tried to rouse the supposed occupant of the empty room . In all likelihood it would be later than noon . He would have at least twelve hours ' start , even though the authorities were nimble-witted enough to join up the smaller mystery of an abandoned suit case belonging to one man and an abandoned outfit of clothing belonging to another , with the greater and seemingly unconnected mystery of the vanishment of the suspect in the Sonntag homicide case . Long before this potential eventuality could by any chance develop , he meant , under another name and in another disguise , to be hidden away at a quiet boarding house that he knew of in a certain obscure factory town on a certain trolley line leading out from Pittsburgh . Now to clear out .