eleven o'clock
I am going on a little trip , and may be gone two weeks , maybe more . Hold your tongue . '' When he wished Peter to be particularly reticent , he told him to hold his tongue . Peter understood , and held it , and finished packing the satchel , ordered the carriage for the eleven o'clock train , and saw his master off , without knowing where he was going , except that his ticket was for New York . `` That smelly letter has something to do with it , of course , '' he said . `` I wish I knew where it was from . '' He was arranging the papers on the library table , when he stopped suddenly with an exclamation of surprise , for there , under his hand , lay the smelly letter , which the Colonel had forgotten to put away .