one o'clock
Perhaps Rodolph would never again come to the _ tapis-franc _ , and then how could he warn him ? Whilst he was conning all this over in his mind , the Chourineur had mechanically followed Tom and Sarah , and saw them get into a coach which awaited them near Notre Dame . The _ fiacre _ started . The Chourineur got up behind , and at one o'clock it stopped on the Boulevard de l'Observatoire , and Thomas and Sarah went down a narrow entrance , which was close at hand . The night was pitch dark , and the Chourineur , that he might know the next day the place where he then was , drew from his pocket his clasp-knife , and cut a deep notch in one of the trees at the corner of the entrance , and then returned to his resting-place , which was at a considerable distance . For the first time for a very long while , the Chourineur enjoyed in his den a comfortable sleep , which was not once interrupted by the horrible vision of the `` Sergeant 's slaughter-house , '' as , in his coarse language , he styled it . On the day after the evening on which the various events we have described had passed , a bright autumnal sun shone from a pure sky ; the darkness of the night had wholly disappeared .