ten o'clock
`` We implore your Royal Highness never to think of hurting it , '' says Lord Castlewood with a low bow . The night being warm , the windows were open both towards the Gardens and the Square . Colonel Esmond heard through the closed door the voice of the watchman calling the hour , in the square on the other side . He opened the door communicating with the Prince 's room ; Martin , the servant that had rode with Beatrix to Hounslow , was just going out of the chamber as Esmond entered it , and when the fellow was gone , and the watchman again sang his cry of `` Past ten o'clock , and a starlight night , '' Esmond spoke to the Prince in a low voice , and said -- `` Your Royal Highness hears that man . '' `` Apres , Monsieur ? '' says the Prince . `` I have but to beckon him from the window , and send him fifty yards , and he returns with a guard of men , and I deliver up to him the body of the person calling himself James the Third , for whose capture Parliament hath offered a reward of 500L .