five o’clock
Here he was told that the ex-deputy was expected home from London at six o'clock that evening . It was two o'clock in the afternoon . Prasville therefore had plenty of time to prepare his plan . He arrived at the Gare du Nord at five o'clock and posted all around , in the waiting-rooms and in the railway-offices , the three or four dozen detectives whom he had brought with him . This made him feel easy . If M. Nicole tried to speak to Vorenglade , they would arrest Lupin . And , to make assurance doubly sure , they would arrest whosoever could be suspected of being either Lupin or one of Lupin 's emissaries .