morning about five o'clock
He passed his evenings at the club , his mornings in bed , and as soon as he was awake had his bedroom full of people , who talked to him while he was dressing , and to whom he replied with his face in his wash-bowl . If , by any miracle , de Géry caught him for a second , he would run away or cut him short with a : `` Not now , I beg you . '' At last the young man resorted to heroic measures . One morning about five o'clock , Jansoulet , on returning from his club , found on the table beside his bed a little note which he took at first for one of the anonymous denunciations which he received every day . It was a denunciation , in very truth , but signed , written with the utmost frankness , breathing the loyalty and youthful seriousness of the man who wrote it . De Géry set before him very clearly all the infamous schemes , all the speculations by which he was surrounded . He called the rascals by their names , without circumlocution .