about nine in the morning
Now , sir , look ! Here is what a man did . '' The demonstration proceeded , and it was carried out with keenness and with a very fair approach to accuracy . `` Here is Malplaquet , which one passes about nine in the morning , and there by the candlestick is Red Fields , certainly on the main road and certainly paused at by '' -- he glanced aside at the other 's face -- `` by the murderer , M. de Pincornet ! Now let us mark this fox that doubles on himself . '' The long , curled wig of the Frenchman and the younger man 's handsome head with the hair gathered back into a black ribbon bent lower over the map . `` Forrest 's forge , the mill , the ford , he passed these places under such and such circumstances -- here , where I rest the pen , stands the guide-post .