eleven o’clock
But , if she was ignorant of it , she would come in an hour to the quay , and there some merciless agent would refuse her a passage ! At any cost , he must see her beforehand , and enable her to avoid such a repulse . But all his endeavors were in vain , and he at length almost despaired of finding her again . It was eleven o'clock , and Michael thought of presenting his podorojna at the office of the head of police . The proclamation evidently did not concern him , since the emergency had been foreseen for him , but he wished to make sure that nothing would hinder his departure from the town . Michael then returned to the other side of the Volga , to the quarter in which was the office of the head of police . An immense crowd was collected there ; for though all foreigners were ordered to quit the province , they had notwithstanding to go through certain forms before they could depart .