ten o'clock
Horner advised me to sell , and I sold it accordingly . It may be late when I return to-morrow night , which I shall do by the F -- coach . It will put me down on the other side of the park , and I shall have to walk home by the plantations , and through the great avenue ; and , though the distance is but a mile , to tell you the truth , I should not like to meet Bill Martin and his gang , after nightfall , in such a lonely place , especially with a large sum of money on my person , -- at least from 500 _ l. _ to 1,000 _ l. _ I wish you would bring your gun , and wait for the coming up of the coach , at the second gate , which leads into that lonely plantation . It will be in by ten o'clock . '' `` That I will , with the greatest pleasure , '' I cried , and all my petty resentment vanished . `` I am not afraid of twenty Bill Martins . I only wish I may have the luck to meet with him . ''