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`` You had best do that , '' he said . * * * * * Now it must have been forty miles from Newmarket to the Rye ; and I had calculated that His Majesty would not start till nine o'clock at the earliest . He would have four horses and would change them at least three times ; but they would not be able to go out of a trot for most of the way , so that I need not look for any news of him till three o'clock at the earliest . From then till five o'clock would be the time . If he were not come by five , or at the very latest half-past , I should know that my design had miscarried . It is very difficult for me to describe at all the state I was in -- all the more as I dared not shew it . It was not merely that my Sovereign was at stake , but a great deal more than that .