about one o'clock
`` I am greatly obliged to you , and the prince , who is a personal friend of the countess , will , I am sure , be greatly pleased when he hears how warmly you have entered into the plans for aiding her escape . I will present myself to the magistrates tomorrow at noon , and obtain from them the order upon the governor of the prison to hand the ladies over to me . If I should succeed I will go straight back to my inn . If you will place someone near the door there to see if I enter , which if I succeed will be about one o'clock , he can bring you the news . I will have my horse brought round at two , and at that hour your men can ride up and join me , and I will proceed with them straight to the prison . '' At twelve o'clock on the following day Ned went to the town hall , and on stating that he was the bearer of an order from the Council , was at once shown into the chamber in which three of the magistrates were sitting . `` I am the bearer of an order from the Council for the delivery to me of the persons of the Countess Von Harp , her daughter , and the woman arrested in company with them for conveyance to Brussels , there to answer the charges against them .