ten o’clock
The family coachman had already departed for Rozel Pier , to bring home the wounded Simpson , while a doctor , summoned by the messenger from St. Heliers , was led by Janet Fairbarn to the apartments of the heiress . Murray and Hardwicke rejoiced in secret over the recovery of the key to the whole deadlock -- from Delhi to London ! The game was now won ! At ten o'clock , a staff officer of General Wragge joined Major Hardwicke and Captain Murray in their room , while one of the terrible army of twelve policemen of an island populated with `` three thousand cooks '' watched over the `` Banker 's Folly , '' and another garrisoned the old martello tower , where Alan Hawke lay alone in the grim majesty of death . The fox-eyed American professor `` invited himself '' to breakfast with Professor Andrew Fraser and cheered the broken old man . `` Never mind , we will finish up the ` History of Thibet ' together , '' he cried , `` when these two swashbucklers are gone , and the house will be much quieter when the girl is married off and out of the way . '' But old Andrew Fraser refused to be comforted .