eight o'clock
`` Is there any answer , sir ? '' the servant asked . `` The boy said he was to wait . '' `` Tell him to say to Mr. Thompson that I will be there at eight o'clock ; but that -- no , that will do . `` It would n't be civil , '' he said to Charlie as the door closed behind the servant , `` to say that I wish to goodness he would let my affairs alone and look to his own . '' When Ned reached the magistrates at the appointed hour he found that the inquiry was of a formal character . Besides the two justices , Major Browne , who commanded the troops at Marsden , was present ; and the justices ' clerk was there to take notes .