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If all fails , he determines to destroy that deed , and protest that he has lost it . `` Dio Santo ! '' ejaculates Nobili , giving the deed to him -- `` twenty-four hours at Corellia ! '' `` Not twenty-four , '' suggests Guglielmi , blandly , putting the deed into his pocket and taking out his watch with extraordinary rapidity , then replacing it as rapidly ; `` it is now seven o'clock . At nine o'clock to-morrow morning the deed of separation shall be signed , and you , Count Nobili , will be free . '' At that moment Fra Pacifico 's tall figure barred the doorway . He seemed to have risen suddenly out of the darkness .