five o’clock
Kalamoun was hopeless ; yet twenty-four hours earlier Fielding had fancied there was a little light in the darkness . That night Fielding 's music gave him but two hours ' sleep , and he had to begin the day on a brandy-and-soda . Wherever he went open resistance blocked his way , hisses and mutterings followed him , the sick were hid in all sorts of places , and two of his assistants deserted before noon . Things looked ominous enough , and at five o'clock he made up his mind that Egypt would be overrun with cholera , and that he should probably have to defend himself and the Amenhotep from rioters , for the native police would be useless . But at five o'clock Dicky Donovan came in a boat , and with him Mustapha Kali under a native guard of four men . The Mudir 's sense of humour had been touched , and this sense of humour probably saved the Mudir from trouble , for it played Dicky 's game for him . Mustapha Kali had been sentenced to serve in the Cholera Hospital of Kalamoun , that he might be cured of his unbelief .