eleven o'clock in the evening
He had his hair cut short and his face neatly shaved , and when he went to his room , he trimmed his mustache in such a way that it greatly altered the cast of his countenance . He was not the penniless man he had represented himself to be , who had not three francs to jingle together , for he was a billiard sharper and gambler of much ability , and when he appeared in the street , the next morning , he was neatly dressed in a suit of second-hand clothes which were as quiet and respectable as any tourist of limited means could have desired . With Baedeker 's `` Paris '' in his hand , and with a long knife and a slung-shot concealed in his clothes , he went forth to behold the wonders of the great city . He did not seem to care very much whether he saw the sights by day or by night , for from early morning until ten or eleven o'clock in the evening , he was an energetic and interested wayfarer , confining his observations , however , to certain quarters of the city which best suited his investigations . One night he gawkily strolled into the Black Cat , and one day he boldly entered the Hotel Grenade and made some inquiries of the porter regarding the price of accommodations , which , however , he declared were far above his means . That day he saw Mok in the courtyard , and once , in passing , he saw Edna come out and enter her carriage with an elderly lady , and they drove away , with Cheditafa on the box . Under his dark sack-coat Banker wore a coarse blouse , and in the pocket of this undergarment he had a white cap .