Two o'clock
A letter found upon the door-way of Leah 's lodgings , addressed to her , was picked up and handed to her about the hour that the jail was thrown into a tumult of consternation over the discovery that Emile Le Grande had escaped . How and whence this letter came was ever a mystery . `` U. S. BLOCKADER `` THUNDERBOLT . '' `` Two o'clock A. M. `` BELOVED LEAH : The die is cast , that divides us again . Fate , that has so long seemed cruel , has again been kind . Unlooked-for , unhoped-for aid reached me in my prison-cell , and enabled me to escape . I know I am innocent of crime ; Heaven knows it ; but I feared my tormentors .