eight o'clock
Lucille 's name was not mentioned between us . My own desires and feelings had been pushed into the background by the events of the last few days , and he is but half a man who can not submit cheerfully to such treatment at the hand of Fate from time to time . During the day we learnt further details respecting the theft of the money , amounting in all to rather more than eight hundred thousand pounds of our coinage . Miste , it appeared , had been instructed to leave Paris by the eight o'clock train that morning for London , taking with him a large sum . The Vicomte had handed him the money the previous evening . `` I carelessly replaced the remainder in the drawer of my writing-table , '' my patron told us , `` before the eyes of that scoundrel . I went to the drawer this morning , having been uneasy about so large a sum -- it was arranged that I should see Miste off from the Gare du Nord .