eleven o'clock
`` Yes , there is indeed much truth in the report . Everything is as true as she has related . The servants are sent to bed , and the old spy also . At eleven o'clock the man appears at the castle , -- the drawbridge is let down , -- the doors open , -- the young lady receives him and leads him into the saloon -- '' `` Well , do n't you see ? '' cried Albert , impatiently , `` if all be as you say , how could that man swear that he had nothing to do with -- '' `` That he had nothing of any kind to do with the lady , you would say ? '' answered the fifer , `` without hesitation he can swear to that ; but there is one essential difference in the story , which that old goose Rosel certainly never knew ; namely , that the knight of Lichtenstein always receives his guest in the saloon , and , as soon as his daughter has placed before him the refreshments which she has prepared , she withdraws . The old gentleman remains with the banished man till the first crow of the cock , when , after having well satisfied his hunger and thirst , and warmed his weary limbs at the fire , he leaves the castle in the same way that he entered it . ''