about five
o'clock
So I goes round behind , and I hammers at the back door , -- but there , I could n't make anyone hear nohow . So I says to myself , `` Perhaps the party as is in , ai n't in , in a manner of speaking ; but I 'll keep an eye on the house , and when he is in I 'll take care that he ai n't out again before I 've had a word to say . '' ` So I come back home , and as I said I would , I kept an eye on the house the whole of that livelong day , but never a soul went either out or in . But the next day , which it was a Friday , I got out of bed about five o'clock , to see if it was raining , through my having an idea of taking a little excursion if the weather was fine , when I see a party coming down the road . He had on one of them dirty-coloured bed-cover sort of things , and it was wrapped all over his head and round his body , like , as I have been told , them there Arabs wear , -- and , indeed , I 've seen them in them myself at West Brompton , when they was in the exhibition there . It was quite fine , and broad day , and I see him as plainly as I see you , -- he comes skimming along at a tear of a pace , pulls up at the house over the way , opens the front door , and lets himself in . ' `` So , '' I says to myself , `` there you are .