eleven o’clock
The Captain pulled a letter from his pocket and presented it to the Prince . It contained merely the two notes which Lermontoff had written to Drummond and to the Czar . AFTER the Captain left him , Lermontoff closed and bolted the door , then sat down upon the edge of his bed to meditate upon the situation . He heard distant bells ringing on shore somewhere , and looking at his watch saw it was just eleven o'clock . It seemed incredible that three-quarters of an hour previously he had left the hospitable doors of a friend , and now was churning his way in an unknown steamer to an unknown destination . It appeared impossible that so much could have happened in forty-five minutes . He wondered what Drummond was doing , and what action he would take when he found his friend missing .