seven o'clock
`` See here , Baron , '' said Tullis after a moment , `` I want you to give me a couple of good men for a few days . I 'm going to Schloss Marlanx . I 'll get her away from that place if I have to kill Marlanx and swing for it . '' At seven o'clock that night , accompanied by two clever secret service men , Tullis boarded the train for the West . A man who stood in the tobacconist 's shop on the station platform smiled quietly to himself as the train pulled out . Then he walked briskly away . It was Peter Brutus , the lawyer .