five o'clock
In despair , but believing that justice could not remain deaf to such equitable claims , I ran to the Palais de Justice , hoping to find there a judge , a magistrate who would receive my complaint , and act upon it . '' `` Well ? '' said the soldier , stopping him . `` I was told that the courts shut every day at five o'clock , and do not open again til ten in the morning . Thinking of your despair , and of the position of poor Mdlle . de Cardoville , I determined to make one more attempt . I entered a guard-house of troops of the line , commanded by a lieutenant .