twenty o'clock
Before mid-day on Saturday I received final confirmation from my messengers in London . `` I was at first surprised that Cardinal Dolgorovski did not communicate it ; for almost simultaneously with the Turin message I received one from a priest of the Order of Christ Crucified in Moscow , to which , of course , I paid no attention . -LRB- It is our rule , Eminences , to treat unauthorised communications in that way . -RRB- His Holiness , however , bade me make inquiries , and I learned from Father Petrovoski and others that the Government placards published the news at twenty o'clock -- by our time . It was curious , therefore , that the Cardinal had not seen it ; if he had seen it , it was , of course , his duty to acquaint me immediately . `` Since that time , however , the following facts have come out . It is established beyond a doubt that Cardinal Dolgorovski received a visitor in the course of the evening .