Two o'clock
The editor could not possibly object to returning him his cheque and accepting one for a thousand . A thousand was bad enough ; but a hundred thousand ! He was growing stiff again . Two o'clock ! Beneath his eyes lay the card which read : `` If you do so once , I _ may _ only warn you -- '' A sudden burst of courage came to Julius Rohscheimer . Anything , he now determined , was preferable to this suspense . He began to turn his head .