eleven o'clock
`` I should think it would , '' Surajah agreed . `` I will do up my brace of pistols in a packet , and put them with the note , '' Dick went on , `` and will say , in it , that I hope he will accept them as a token of our esteem and gratitude . They are well-finished English pistols , and I have no doubt he will prize them . I will mention , too , that we shall have made our escape at eleven o'clock , and therefore , by the time he receives my letter , we shall be far beyond the reach of pursuit . I daresay that will decide him upon letting the matter pass quietly , and he will see himself that , by making no fuss over it , no one outside the fortress will ever know that a prisoner has escaped . '' The next day passed comparatively quietly . A good many soldiers and women came up from below , and before sunset their goods were completely cleared out .