seven o'clock
We have six men in the street outside , and another half dozen watching the leads here . You will be sensible enough to follow my instructions absolutely . Black , we know , leaves the country to-night in his steamer -- yesterday at Ramsgate ; to-day we do not know where . The probability is that he will come to fetch you at seven o'clock -- I have frightened it all out of the people down-stairs -- if he does , you will go with him . Otherwise , he 's pretty sure to send someone for you , and , as you at the moment are our sole link between that unmitigated scoundrel and his arrest , I ask you to risk one step more , and return at any rate as far as the coast , that we may follow him for the last time . You 'll do that for us ? '' I looked at his card , whereon was the inscription , `` Detective-Inspector King , Scotland Yard '' ; and I said at once -- `` I shall not only go to the coast , but to his tender , for I 've given my word .