about eight o'clock
`` Why , you see , he may travel in the country to GIT 'em , '' here shrewdly remarked the constable ; `` and it 's our belief that neither horse nor money is honestly come by . If his worship is satisfied , why so , in course , shall we be ; but there is highwaymen abroad , look you ; and , to our notion , you have very much the cut of one . '' Further remonstrances or threats on the part of Mr. Macshane were useless . Although he vowed that he was first cousin to the Duke of Leinster , an officer in Her Majesty 's service , and the dearest friend Lord Marlborough had , his impudent captors would not believe a word of his statement -LRB- which , further , was garnished with a tremendous number of oaths -RRB- ; and he was , about eight o'clock , carried up to the house of Squire Ballance , the neighbouring justice of the peace . When the worthy magistrate asked the crime of which the prisoner had been guilty , the captors looked somewhat puzzled for the moment ; since , in truth , it could not be shown that the Ensign had committed any crime at all ; and if he had confined himself to simple silence , and thrown upon them the onus of proving his misdemeanours , Justice Ballance must have let him loose , and soundly rated his clerk and the landlord for detaining an honest gentleman on so frivolous a charge . But this caution was not in the Ensign 's disposition ; and though his accusers produced no satisfactory charge against him , his own words were quite enough to show how suspicious his character was . When asked his name , he gave it in as Captain Geraldine , on his way to Ireland , by Bristol , on a visit to his cousin the Duke of Leinster .