nearly seven o'clock
I would rather have gone with him to Keitung , for a presentiment told me there was trouble in the wind . He had not talked to me about the Baithopoor intrigue , for everything was as much settled beforehand as it was possible to settle anything . There was nothing to be said , for all that was to come was action ; but I knew Isaacs distrusted the maharajah , and that without Ram Lal 's assistance -- of whatever nature that might prove to be -- he would not have ventured to go alone to such a tryst . When I returned the camp was all alive , for it was nearly seven o'clock . Kildare and the collector , my servant said , had gone off on _ tats _ to shoot some small game . Mr. Ghyrkins was occupied with the shikarries in the stretching and dressing of the skin he had won the previous day . Neither Miss Westonhaugh nor her brother had been seen .