eight o'clock
`` It is a short walk from Gex . '' `` This , '' he added , pointing to a paper which I had taken from him , `` is a plan of the village and of the Pass of Cergues close by . Study it carefully . At some point some way up the pass , which I have marked with a cross , I and my men with the ` babies ' will be waiting for you to-morrow evening at eight o'clock . You can not possibly fail to find the spot , for the plan is very accurate and very minute , and it is less than five hundred metres from the last house at the entrance of the pass . I shall escort the men until then , and hand them over into your charge for the mountain journey . Is that clear ? ''