ten o'clock
They turned from the cliff and went back to their work , in which -- for they both enjoyed it -- they were soon immersed . It may have been , too , that the wind had shifted . At any rate they missed to hear , ten minutes later , a second shot fired on the beach , not more distant but fainter than the first . Next morning , at ten o'clock , the Collector 's coach-and-six stood at the Inn gate , harnessed up and ready for the return journey . In the road-way beyond one of the grooms waited with a hand on Bayard 's bridle . The Collector , booted and spurred , with riding-whip tucked under his arm , came up the pebbled pathway , drawing on his gauntleted gloves . Dicky trotted beside him .