five o'clock
No ; once and for all I decided that the whole affair could have nothing to do with any kind of personal animosity . Criminals were at work , desperate criminals , perhaps , and Osborne and Dulcie and I had chanced to prove very useful as pawns in some scheme of theirs for securing plunder . I glanced at my watch . It was just five o'clock . Concluding that Jack Osborne must now be at his rooms , I drove to the Russell Hotel . Yes , he particularly wanted to see me ; would I please go up at once , the clerk said when he had telephoned up my name and my inquiry if Mr. Osborne were at home to anybody . Easterton was with him still ; a doctor was on the point of leaving as I entered the room where Jack sat in his dressing-gown in a big chair , drinking a cup of soup .