ten minutes past twelve
But he ca n't or wo n't prove it -- that 's his luck again ! -- and nobody can be found who saw him in any of the streets through which he mentions passing . The last moment that he can be accounted for is when a cabman , who 'd taken him up at the hotel just after he left us , set him down in the Rue de Courbvoie , not so very far from the Élysée Palace . Then it was only between five and ten minutes past twelve , so he could easily have gone on to the Rue de la Fille Sauvage afterwards and killed his man at the time when the doctors say the fellow must have died . It 's a bad scrape . But of course Dundas will get out of it somehow or other , in the end . '' `` Do _ you _ think he will , Eric ? ''