four P.M
She took her mocking-bird with her ; he carried it ; he came back alone . '' On the next afternoon the children about the Café des Réfugiés enjoyed the spectacle of the invalid Cuban moved on a trestle to the Café des Exilés , although he did not look so deathly sick as they could have liked to see him , and on the fourth morning the doors of the Café des Exilés remained closed . A black-bordered funeral notice , veiled with crape , announced that the great Caller-home of exiles had served his summons upon Don Pedro Hernandez -LRB- surname borrowed for the occasion -RRB- , and Don Carlos Mendez y Benito . The hour for the funeral was fixed at four P.M. . It never took place . Down at the Picayune Tier on the river bank there was , about two o'clock that same day , a slight commotion , and those who stood aimlessly about a small , neat schooner , said she was `` seized . '' At four there suddenly appeared before the Café des Exilés a squad of men with silver crescents on their breasts -- police officers .