ten o'clock
Three Rivers is eighty miles from Quebec . '' `` As the crow flies , Your Excellency . By the road it is something more . '' `` You must be there by ten o'clock to-night . '' `` I will be there . '' `` Here are despatches for the Commandant of Three Rivers . '' And he handed the officer a sealed package which the latter at once secured in his waistcoat pocket .