About five o'clock
Well , never mind . Only , he said with energy , there are some more things that I _ will _ know if I have the good fortune to get near that German clerk of his , and Winny shall have her chance at German yet . Callers found their usually brisk host almost inattentive during the remainder of that afternoon . About five o'clock he dispatched a note , addressed `` J. H. McPherson , Euclid House , '' and astonished and delighted his young waiter by an unusually early putting up of shutters , and of putting things generally to rights for the night . In fact , it was not more than seven o'clock when Jim McPherson arrived and found his old-time companion alone and in waiting . `` Halloo ! What 's up ? ''