four o'clock
He learnt also that telegraphic communication between Pampeluna and Saragossa was interrupted . The Carlists again . At dawn the next morning , Marcos and Sarrion rode out of the city towards Alagón by the great high road many inches deep in dust which has always been the main artery of the capital of Aragon . The pace was leisurely ; for the carriage they were going to meet had been timed to leave Alagón fifteen miles away at four o'clock . There was but one road . They could scarcely miss it . It was seven o'clock when they halted at a roadside inn .