nine o'clock
Do get up , '' and Eleanor went off , eager to hear the latest news . The present situation was justifying her tenacious opinion that new communities were interesting . In spite of her many inquiries , her intelligence was not quite the latest . The police had stolen a march on the crowd , and Big Todd had been quietly brought before the seat of justice at nine o'clock , remanded for a week , and carried off to the prison , which was situated outside the town , about half-a-mile beyond Government House . The van containing the captive had rolled unsuspected through the streets , and it was not till the crowd had waited an hour outside the court that the secret leaked out . The outwitted men were in a fury . The mounted police lined the sides of the street , and their impassive demeanour seemed to rouse the mob to fresh anger .