Tuesday
at midnight
`` This is it , '' he said . To General Renauld . Cable Office , Tangier . -- They leave Tangier Tuesday at midnight , they land at daybreak Thursday morning on the south beach below the old breakwater . The secret of the expedition was sold us for three hundred thousand francs by the Countess Zara and the Prince Kalonay . Gordon stuck the paper in his pocket , and , crossing to Kalonay , held out his hand , with a smile . `` I do n't believe it , of course , '' he said ; `` but you would have it . ''