ten o'clock
There was a sensation when the new placards had been generally read ; yet the hunt of the day before was not resumed . It was considered exhausted . Men and women poured into the streets and talked and talked -- about the Prince of India . By ten o'clock all known of him and a great deal more had gone through numberless discussions ; and could he have heard the conclusions reached he had never smiled again . By a consensus singularly unanimous , he was an Indian , vastly rich , but not a Prince , and his interest in the stolen girl was owing to forbidden relations . This latter part of the judgment , by far the most cruel , might have been traced to Demedes . In all the city there had not been a more tireless hunter than Demedes .