five o’clock
`` Mills , '' said he , `` I shall leave town on horseback as soon as the sun rises . Put what I may require for a day or two into the saddle-bags . Possibly , however I may be back by dinner-time . Call me at five o'clock , and then go round to the stables . I shall require no groom to attend me . '' The next morning , while the streets were deserted , no houses as yet astir , but the sun bright , the air fresh , Guy Darrell rode from his door . He did not return the same day , nor the next , nor at all .