four o’clock
This last alternative , involving as it did the most horrid risks , and the delay of forty-eight hours , I did but glance at with an averted head , and turned again to the consideration of the others . It was the likeliest thing in the world that Robbie had been warned to have no more to do with me . The whole policy of the Gilchrists was in the hands of Chevenix ; and I thought this was a precaution so elementary that he was certain to have taken it . If he had not , of course I was all right : Robbie would manage to communicate with Flora ; and by four o'clock I might be on the south road and , I was going to say , a free man . Lastly , I must assure myself with my own eyes whether the bank in George Street were beleaguered . I called to Rowley and questioned him tightly as to the appearance of the Bow Street officer . ` What sort of looking man is he , Rowley ? '