ten o'clock
This was also their opinion , for they had already hired a vessel which is lying in the stream . The plan is to seize and gag him and tie his arms . There will be no difficulty in getting him along through the streets . There are few folks abroad after ten o'clock , and should they meet anyone he will conclude that it is but a drunken Highlander being carried home . You see , Malcolm , there is not only honour to be gained from the king , but the thirty thousand pounds offered for the prince 's person . I pretended to fall in with the plan , and gave them the fifty pounds which they lacked for the hire of the vessel , the captain refusing to let them have it save for money paid down . Now , Malcolm , I have told you and Ronald all I know about the matter , and it is for you to see how a stop may be put to it . ''