five o'clock
I hope that you will stay here for the night , Mr. Blagrove , for I am anxious to hear all that you have been doing . I can offer you nothing but horse-flesh for dinner , for the town is in a state of starvation . '' `` I can not do that . I have only leave till five o'clock , and indeed I only obtained permission to enter the town for two hours , and the French might object were I to stop here to-night . '' Edgar wrote a long letter to his father . An hour after he had done so he left , taking it and the trader 's packet away with him . These he placed in the headquarter-staff mail-bag .