about eight o'clock
In those perilous times it was hard to find a person in whom one could implicitly confide . Denunciation , that fatal weapon that lay within the reach of every hand , was frequently made the instrument of personal vengeance . No one was beyond its reach ; and Vauquelas was not disposed to reveal his plans to a man who would be likely to betray them or him . It was about eight o'clock when the two men left the Café and the Palais Égalité , and entered one of the cabriolets that stood before the theatre , a few steps below . In about twenty minutes , the carriage stopped not far from the Folies-Bergères . When the driver had been paid and dismissed , Vauquelas and Coursegol traversed the unoccupied ground that lay between the Rue du Roule and the Champs-Élysées . The place was dark and deserted .