nearly ten o'clock
I shall go down to the lugger early , and remain on board all day , seeing to the stowage of the cargo we are taking on board , so that no suspicion can arise that I am thinking of leaving for the country . '' The next evening the party started by unfrequented streets for the quay , the nurse carrying the child , now three months old . The boxes had gone half an hour before . It was nearly ten o'clock , and the quays were deserted . Monsieur Martin had himself gone down , in the afternoon , with the money to the lugger , and handed it over to Jean , and had a long talk with him and Pierre Lefaux , to whom Jean had also intrusted letters from himself and Patsey , to the squire . As soon as the party had taken their seats in the boat , it was rowed two miles up the river , to a point where there was a ferry across to a road , leading into the heart of La Vendee . Here a light waggon and a carriage were waiting .