eleven o'clock at night
`` Certainly , but it 's a mighty slender one , and in any case I mean to -- I _ must _ -- risk it . '' `` I 'm awfully sorry for you . '' `` Now , Jack , I want you to listen to me , '' said Acton , very gravely , and his voice showed his genuine anxiety . `` The Coon 's match does not commence until eleven o'clock at night , because an awful lot of the Universal Sporters are actors and they can not get away before that time at earliest . Now , there are two entrances for the members into the club , one in Pelican Street and the other in Ridge Street . Raffles must enter by one or the other , and there must be some one at each doorway to give him my note . I can take the one , and the question is -- who will take the second doorway ? ''