five o'clock before
The jeweler replied : `` That 's right ... . The lady telephoned to me . She will call here herself presently . '' * * * * * It was five o'clock before Shears , standing on the pavement , saw a lady arrive , wrapped in a thick veil , whose appearance struck him as suspicious . Through the shop-window he saw her place on the counter an old-fashioned brooch set with garnets . She went away almost at once , did a few errands on foot , walked up toward Clichy and turned down streets which the Englishman did not know . At nightfall , he followed her , unperceived by the concierge , into a five-storeyed house built on either side of the doorway and therefore containing numberless flats .