about eight o’clock
Although I had no reason to anticipate any difficulties , I did not forget that what I carried must be protected at all hazards and all costs . The weary night journey wore itself away . Bauer came to me in the morning , performed his small services , repacked my hand-bag , procured me some coffee , and left me . It was then about eight o'clock ; we had arrived at a station of some importance and were not to stop again till mid-day . I saw Bauer enter the second-class compartment in which he was traveling , and settled down in my own coupe . I think it was at this moment that the thought of Rischenheim came again into my head , and I found myself wondering why he clung to the hopeless idea of compassing Rupert 's return and what business had taken him from Strelsau . But I made little of the matter , and , drowsy from a broken night 's rest , soon fell into a doze .