three o'clock in the
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Though Henri did not quite understand why Denot should especially allude to Saumur in his mad moments , yet he understood enough of what the men told him about their Captain , to be sure that Adolphe was the man ; and though he could not but be shocked to hear him spoken of as a madman , yet he rejoiced in his heart to find that he had done something to redeem his character as a loyal soldier . He learnt that Denot had been above two months in Brittany ; that he had first appeared in the neighbourhood of Laval with about two hundred men , who had followed him thither out of that province , and that he had there been joined by as many more belonging to Maine , and that since that time he had been backwards and forwards from one town to another , chiefly in the Morbihan ; and that he had succeeded in almost every case in driving the republican garrison from the towns which he attacked . After Henri had remained a couple of hours in the guard-house , and when it was near midnight , Chapeau returned . He had found out the lodgings of the journeyman baker , had gone thither , and had learnt , after many inquiries , which were very nearly proving ineffectual , that the Mad Captain , whoever he was , occupied a little bed-room at the top of the same house , and that he was , at the very moment at which these inquiries were being made , fast asleep in his bed , having given his Lieutenant , the journeyman baker , strict orders to call him at three o'clock in the morning . Henri and Chapeau again started on their search ; and making their way , for the second time , through the dark , crowded streets , reached a small miserable looking house , in a narrow lane , at one of the lower windows of which Chapeau knocked with his knuckles . ` I told M. Plume that I should call again tonight , ' said he , `` and he 'll know its me . '' `` And is M. Plume the baker ? ''