about half past five
A dollar and sixty-two cents in small change . He put the money under his pillow and the other things in the toe of an infantry boot , stuffing a stocking in on top of them . Then for two hours his mind raced like a high-power engine here and there through his life , past and future , through fear and laughter . With a vague , inopportune wish that he were married , he fell into a deep sleep about half past five . Though the newspaper account of the burglary failed to mention the false teeth , they worried him considerably . The picture of a human waking in the cool dawn and groping for them in vain , of a soft , toothless breakfast , of a strange , hollow , lisping voice calling the police station , of weary , dispirited visits to the dentist , roused a great fatherly pity in him . Trying to ascertain whether they belonged to a man or a woman , he took them carefully out of the case and held them up near his mouth .