ten o'clock
And the French people were prepared . A little rioting , perhaps ; a pistol shot or two , and a machine-gun that would spring from nowhere and sweep the street -- ! We know now of the document that the Russian Ambassador delivered to the President of France , though no one knew of it then . He handed it to the portly , bearded President at ten o'clock on the morning of April thirtieth . And the building that had housed the Russian representatives was empty ten minutes later . Their disguises must have been ready , for if the sewers of Paris had swallowed them they could have vanished no more suddenly . And the document ?