nearly three o'clock in the morning
I understand that the woman is prepared to swear not only that Hawkins admitted to her that he was properly served , but that she told this to Dillingham , and that he and Hawkins talked the thing over in her presence . Besides , Cohen confessed to me to-day that she had pumped him all about Hawkins 's coming over to New York and signing papers ; and , although he swears he did n't tell her anything in particular , yet I do n't trust the idiot . No , Quib ; it 's bad business and we 've got to get Hawkins out of the way at any cost . '' It was not until nearly three o'clock in the morning that I discovered Dillingham 's whereabouts , which happened to be at the Fifth Avenue house of a fashionable friend , where he was playing draw poker . He greeted me in much the same inhospitable fashion that I had accorded to Gottlieb , but only a few words were needed to convince him of the gravity of the case . I had never loathed the man more than I did at that instant when , with a cigar stuffed in his fat face , he came out of the card-room , dressed in his white waistcoat and pearl studs , and with a half-drunken leer asked what I wanted . `` I want fifty thousand dollars to keep you and me out of State prison ! ''