nine o'clock in the morning
They arranged to sleep in it turn and turn about . In reality , Lupin slept for only two or three hours . In the middle of the night he left the room , without disturbing his companion , carefully looked round the whole of the house and walked out through the principal gate . * * * * * 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 .