6:30
He was coming down the staircase of the rear tenement then , very much as I had just seen him coming down the one in front . Only the Dunn of to-day seemed to have all his wits about him , while the huge fellow who brushed so rudely by me on that occasion had the peculiar look of a man struggling with horror or some other grave agitation . This was not surprising , of course , under the circumstances . I had met more than one man and woman in those halls who had worn the same look ; but none of them had put up a sign on his door that he had left for New York and would not be back till 6:30 , and then changed his mind so suddenly that he was back in the tenement at three , sharing the curiosity and the terrors of its horrified inmates . `` But the discovery , while possibly suggestive , was not of so pressing a nature as to demand instant action ; and more immediate duties coming up , I let the matter slip from my mind , to be brought up again the next day , you may well believe , when all the circumstances of the death at the Clermont came to light and I found myself confronted by a problem very nearly the counterpart of the one then occupying me . `` But I did not see any real connection between the two cases , until , in my hunt for Mr. Brotherson , I came upon the following facts : that he was not always the gentleman he appeared : that the apartment in which he was supposed to live was not his own but a friend 's ; and that he was only there by spells . When he was there , he dressed like a prince and it was while so clothed he ate his meals in the cafe of the Hotel Clermont .