ten o'clock
I prescribed a hot drink of whiskey-punch apiece for us in order to ward off pneumonia ; and by half-past six we were ready for dinner . Everything passed off as well as before , and Holmes was effusively congratulated by the Earl for his recovery of the sixth and seventh diamond cuff-buttons , His Lordship deciding at length that the second gardener had been punished enough for his theft by being dumped into the creek . They all echoed Holmes 's slogan of : `` Seven , come eleven ! '' for the recovery of the four remaining gems ; and after an evening spent in listening to Lord Launcelot play the mandolin , and to Uncle Tooter telling some more extravagant tales of his adventures in India , we retired at ten o'clock , and I soon fell asleep . Then I dreamed that I was back in the United States , on a Mississippi River levee , throwing dice with several colored boys , who kept shouting : `` Seven , come eleven ! '' when Hemlock Holmes came along and pinched us all for crap-shooting ! Thursday morning , April the eleventh , found us none the worse for our wetting in the creek the afternoon before ; and as Holmes and I were dressing in our room , he loudly boasted that before another day had passed he would succeed in finding the four remaining diamond cuff-buttons .