About nine in the evening
`` Oh , now them hast given wise counsel , '' said the host . `` Let that rat go to the priestesses , and from them to places unknown to me . But I will send after him my vision , from which nothing will be secret . '' About nine in the evening Phut left the inn `` Under the Ship '' in company with a negro who carried a torch . Half an hour earlier Asarhadon sent out a confidential servant , commanding him to observe carefully if the guest from Harran left the house of the `` Green Star , '' and if so to follow him . A second confidential servant went at a certain distance behind Phut ; in the narrower streets he hid among the houses , on the broader ones he feigned drunkenness . The streets were empty ; carriers and hucksters were sleeping .