about eleven o'clock
Let us then make a profound apology and beg the magistrate to deal with the case summarily instead of sending it for trial . If you can get this , believe me , your young friend will be better out of it than he has any right to expect . '' This advice , besides being obviously sensible , would end in saving Ernest both time and suspense of mind , so we had no hesitation in adopting it . The case was called on about eleven o'clock , but we got it adjourned till three , so as to give time for Ernest to set his affairs as straight as he could , and to execute a power of attorney enabling me to act for him as I should think fit while he was in prison . Then all came out about Pryer and the College of Spiritual Pathology . Ernest had even greater difficulty in making a clean breast of this than he had had in telling us about Miss Maitland , but he told us all , and the upshot was that he had actually handed over to Pryer every halfpenny that he then possessed with no other security than Pryer 's I.O.U. 's for the amount . Ernest , though still declining to believe that Pryer could be guilty of dishonourable conduct , was becoming alive to the folly of what he had been doing ; he still made sure , however , of recovering , at any rate , the greater part of his property as soon as Pryer should have had time to sell .