about two in the morning
By the end of their walk there seemed nothing left of the original Von Baumser except a tawny beard , and an expression of hopeless and overpowering astonishment . Having effected this transformation , the friends retraced their steps to Verdi 's and did full justice to the spread awaiting them , after which the old soldier won the heart of the establishment by bestowing largess upon every one who came in his way . As to the further adventures of these two Bohemians , it would be as well perhaps to draw a veil over them . Suffice it that , about two in the morning , the worthy Mrs. Robins was awakened by a stentorian voice in the street below demanding to know `` Was ist das Deutsche Vaterland ? '' -- a somewhat vexed question which the owner of the said voice was propounding to the solitary lamp-post of Kennedy Place . On descending the landlady discovered that the author of this disturbance was a fashionably dressed gentleman , who , upon closer inspection , proved to her great surprise to be none other than the usually demure part proprietor of her fourth floor . As to the major , he walked in quietly the next day about twelve o'clock , looking as trim and neat as ever , but minus the balance of the fifty pounds , nor did he think fit ever to make any allusion to this some what heavy deficit .