ten o'clock
His face was deadly pale , and his mouth was wide open as he slept , breathing heavily ; his left hand rested on the hilt of his scimiter ; his right was extended , palm upwards , on the stone step on which he sat , the very picture of exhaustion . At any other time Paul would have laughed at the scene . But he was very far from mirth now , as he bent down and laid his hand upon the sleeping kaváss 's shoulder . At ten o'clock on that morning , Paul and the kaváss went on board the steam launch at Beschik Tasch , the landing most convenient for persons coming from the upper part of Pera . They had done everything possible , and it was manifestly Paul 's duty to inform his chief of the occurrences of the night . The authorities had been put in possession of the details of Alexander 's disappearance , and the scanty machinery of the Stamboul police had been set in motion ; notice had been given at every hotel and circulated to every place of resort , and it was impossible that if Alexander showed himself in Pera he should escape observation , even if he desired to do so . But Stamboul was not Pera , and as Paul gave the order to steam to Buyukdere he resolutely turned his back on the eastern shore of the Golden Horn , unable to bear the sight of the buildings so intimately associated with his night 's search .