four o'clock
Mr. Ladley moved to the back parlor to let the paper-hanger in the front room , smoked and fussed with his papers all day , and Mr. Holcombe stayed in his room , which was unusual . In the afternoon Molly Maguire put on the striped fur coat and went out , going slowly past the house so that I would be sure to see her . Beyond banging the window down , I gave her no satisfaction . At four o'clock Mr. Holcombe came to my kitchen , rubbing his hands together . He had a pasteboard tube in his hand about a foot long , with an arrangement of small mirrors in it . He said it was modeled after the something or other that is used on a submarine , and that he and the paper-hanger had fixed a place for it between his floor and the ceiling of Mr. Ladley 's room , so that the chandelier would hide it from below . He thought he could watch Mr. Ladley through it ; and as it turned out , he could .