the hour of eleven
`` That 's a deep move , '' said the agent , `` but we shall defeat them , notwithstanding . Everything , however , depends upon their leaving the country before Chevydale happens to come at the real state of the case ; still , it will go hard or we shall baffle both him and them yet . '' Whether Clinton Was sure that the step urged upon him by his nephew was the result of a generous regard for M'Mahon , or that the former was made a mere tool for ultimate purposes , in the hands of the Ahadarra man , as he called him it is not easy to determine . Be this as it may , when the hour of eleven came the next morning , he was prepared to set his nephew 's generosity aside , and act upon Fethertonge 's theory of doing everything in his power to get the whole connection out of the country , `` Ha , '' he exclaimed , `` I now understand what Harry meant with respect to their emigration -- ` It is that fact which presses upon him most . ' Oh ho ! is it so , indeed ! Very good , Mr. M'Mahon -- we shall act accordingly . ''