six o'clock
* * * * * He reached Paris on his motor-cycle at nine o'clock in the morning . Two of his friends , to whom he telephoned on the road , met him there . They all three spent the day in making searches which Lupin had planned out beforehand . He set out again hurriedly at six o'clock ; and never , perhaps , as he told me subsequently , did he risk his life with greater temerity than in his breakneck ride , at a mad rate of speed , on a foggy December evening , with the light of his lamp hardly able to pierce through the darkness . He sprang from his bicycle outside the gate , which was still open , ran to the house and reached the first floor in a few bounds . There was no one in the little dining-room . Without hesitating , without knocking , he walked into Jeanne 's bedroom : `` Ah , here you are ! ''