about eight o'clock
But all was silence ; and , wild with some mad fear , she set off hurriedly , never stopping until she came to their trysting tree . But here there was silence also , only the nightingale throbbed from the copse , while the faint rustle of soft zephyrs disturbed the leaves . And Jeb Hart and his comrade saw the tall white figure from their hiding-place in the low overgrown brushwood , and Gubbs crossed himself again , for whether she were living or some wraith they were never really sure . At the moment when Halcyone opened the secret door , John Derringham was just recovering consciousness in a luxurious bed at Wendover Park , whither he had been carried when accidentally found by the keepers in their rounds about eight o'clock . It was several days since they had visited this part of the park , and they had lit upon him by a fortunate chance . He had lain there in the haw-haw , unconscious all that day , while his poor little lady-love waited for him at the oak gate , and was now in a sorry plight indeed , as Arabella Clinker bent over him , awaiting anxiously the verdict of the doctors who had been fetched by motor from Upminster . Would he live or die ?