about ten o'clock
-- but engaged a palatial suite for himself , with a parlor , while I had a small and modest room farther down the hall . In some respects this suited me well , however , since I was now able to induce him to have his meals served upstairs . Yet I began to see the foolishness of thinking that we could elude the police should they set out to seek seriously for us , since , apart from changing our names , we were making no effort at disguising ourselves . The day after our arrival , Hawkins slept late and I slipped out about ten o'clock and wandering aimlessly came to Barristers ' Hall , where twenty years before old Tuckerman Toddleham had his office . The day was warm and humid , like that upon which so long ago I had visited the old lawyer when a student at Harvard and had received from him my sentence . Even as then , some birds were twittering around the stone window-ledges . An impulse that at the moment was beyond my control led me up the narrow , dingy stairs to the landing where the lawyer 's office had been .