about a quarter after eleven
Last summer in Paris with the Greenes you must have chanced to hear , of Pillard , the Apache , one of the most noted cracksmen the world has ever produced . You sought him out . He taught you how to paint your fingers with a rubber composition , how to use an electric drill , how to use the old-fashioned jimmy . You went down to Fletcherwood by the back road about a quarter after eleven the night of the robbery in the Greenes ' little electric runabout . You entered the library by an unlocked window , you coupled your drill to the electric light connections of the chandelier . You had to work quickly , for the power would go off at midnight , yet you could not do the job later , when they were sleeping more soundly , for the very same reason . '' It was uncanny as Kennedy rushed along in his reconstruction of the scene , almost unbelievable .