six o’clock
An hour later they owned a thousand crowns . Black had turned up for the fifth consecutive time ; they trusted that their previous luck would not repeat itself , and put the whole sum on the red -- black turned up for the sixth time . They had lost . It was now six o'clock . `` Let us just try twenty-five francs , '' said Lucien . The new venture was soon made -- and lost . The twenty-five francs went in five stakes .