eight o'clock
I have n't worked any harder than usual to-day , and I ca n't understand it . '' Dodger had reason to be surprised , for he did n't usually retire till eleven o'clock . In a city like New York , where many of the streets are tolerably well filled even at midnight , people get in the way of sitting up much later than in the country , and Dodger was no exception to this rule . Yet here he was ready to drop off to sleep before eight o'clock . To him it was a mystery , for he did not know that the cup of tea which he had drunk at supper had been drugged by direction of Curtis Waring , with an ulterior purpose , which will soon appear . `` I may as well lie down , as there is nothing else to do , '' thought Dodger . `` There is n't much fun sitting in the dark .