midnight
I took it up . It was addressed : `` Sous-Lieutenant Burke , '' with the words `` in haste '' written in the corner . Tearing it open at once , I read the following : -- All is discovered ; Pichegru arrested ; Moreau at the Temple . A party have left this to capture the others at the Château d'Ancre ; they can not be there before midnight ; you may then yet be in time to save H. de B. , who is among them . Not an instant must be lost . There was no signature to this strange epistle , but I knew at once from whom it came . Marie alone could venture on such a step to save her lover .