ten a.m. precisely
-LRB- II -RRB- The news began to be rumored about , soon after the auction that Frank held of his effects a couple of days later . He carried out the scene admirably , entirely unassisted , even by Jack . First , there appeared suddenly all over Cambridge , the evening before the sale , just as the crowds of undergraduates and female relations began to circulate about after tea and iced strawberries , a quantity of sandwich-men , bearing the following announcement , back and front : TRINITY COLLEGE , CAMBRIDGE . THE HON. FRANK GUISELEY has pleasure in announcing that on JUNE 7TH -LRB- Saturday -RRB- at half-past ten a.m. precisely in Rooms 1 , Letter J , Great Court , Trinity College , he will positively offer for SALE BY AUCTION _ The household effects , furniture , books , etc. , of the Hon. Frank Guiseley , including _ -- A piano by Broadwood -LRB- slightly out of tune -RRB- ; a magnificent suite of drawing-room furniture , upholstered in damask , the sofa only slightly stained with tea ; one oak table and another ; a bed ; a chest of drawers -LRB- imitation walnut , and not a very good imitation -RRB- ; a mahogany glass-fronted bookcase , containing a set of suggestive-looking volumes bound in faint colors , with white labels ; four oriental mats ; a portrait of a gentleman -LRB- warranted a perfectly respectable ancestor -RRB- ; dining-room suite -LRB- odd chairs -RRB- ; numerous engravings of places of interest and noblemen 's seats ; a _ Silver Cigarette-box and fifteen Cigarettes in it -LRB- Melachrino and Mixed American _ -RRB- ; a cuckoo-clock -LRB- without cuckoo -RRB- ; five walking-sticks ; numerous suits of clothes -LRB- one lot suitable for Charitable Purposes -RRB- ; some books -- all VERY CURIOUS indeed -- comprising the works of an Eminent Cambridge Professor , and other scholastic luminaries , as well as many other articles . AT HALF-PAST TEN A.M. PRECISELY All friends , and strangers , cordially invited . NO RESERVE PRICE . It served its purpose admirably , for by soon after ten o'clock quite a considerable crowd had begun to assemble ; and it was only after a very serious conversation with the Dean that the sale was allowed to proceed .