a quarter to five
The uncanny sights which he had witnessed impressed the Cavalleria fisherman mightily , and when he received a valuable banknote , he helped fill up the hole and departed , fully determined to hold his tongue . The man with the spectacles said that evil would assuredly befall if he spoke of the things he had seen , and that fisherman believed him implicitly . The two raiders walked rapidly down the narrow lanes till they came upon the broad road at that point where it is interrupted by a hedge of wheelbarrows and gang planks . Coming down the other branch road opposite to them was the zinc-roofed diligence , which had left Ciudadella in chill darkness at a quarter to five . At their sign the driver brought the ramshackle conveyance to a stand , and they squeezed into the stuffy interior . Then with an _ arre-e-ee _ , and an impartial basting with the short whip , the four wretched horses got into their shamble again , and forty minutes later were climbing in and out of the clean dry holes in Calle Isabella 2 ^ a at Mahon . They only had one hitch in their enterprise .