nine in the evening
The woman was a bigamist , -- that is , if any second marriage had ever been perpetrated . Probably both had wilfully agreed to the falsehood . For himself he should resolve at once what steps he meant to take . Then he departed , it being at that moment after nine in the evening . In the morning he was gone again , and from that moment they had never either heard of him or seen him . How was it to be with them ? They could have almost brought themselves to think it a dream , were it not that others besides themselves had seen the man , and known that Colonel Ferdinand Lefroy had been in St. Louis .