six o'clock
Indeed , after a while Theodore and Carissimo became so inextricably mixed up in my mind that I could not have told you if I was seeking for the one or for the other and if Mme. la Comtesse de Nolé was now waiting to clasp her pet dog or my man-of-all-work to her exquisite bosom . She in the meanwhile had received a second , yet more peremptory , missive through the same channel as the previous one . A grimy deformed man , with ginger-coloured hair , and wearing a black patch over one eye , had been seen by one of the servants lolling down the street where Madame lived , and subsequently the concierge discovered that an exceedingly dirty scrap of paper had been thrust under the door of his lodge . The writer of the epistle demanded that Mme. la Comtesse should stand in person at six o'clock that same evening at the corner of the Rue Guénégaud , behind the Institut de France . Two men , each wearing a blue blouse and peaked cap , would meet her there . She must hand over the money to one of them , whilst the other would have Carissimo in his arms . The missive closed with the usual threats that if the police were mixed up in the affair , or the money not forthcoming , Carissimo would be destroyed .