about ten o'clock in the morning
Under his dark sack-coat Banker wore a coarse blouse , and in the pocket of this undergarment he had a white cap . He was a wonderful man to move quietly out of people 's way , and there were places in every neighborhood where , even in the daytime , he could cast off the dark coat and the derby hat without attracting attention . It was satisfactory to think , as he briskly passed on , as one who has much to see in a little time , that the incident in the Tuileries Gardens had not yet caused the captain 's wife to change her quarters . It was a little more than a week after Edna 's adventure in the Gardens , and about ten o'clock in the morning , that something happened -- something which proved that Mrs. Cliff was entirely right when she talked about the feeling in her bones . Edna received a letter from Captain Horn , which was dated at Marseilles . As she stood with the letter in her hand , every nerve tingling , every vein throbbing , and every muscle as rigid as if it had been cast in metal , she could scarcely comprehend that it had really come -- that she really held it . After all this waiting and hoping and trusting , here was news from Captain Horn -- news by his own hand , now , here , this minute !