seven in the evening
I have a request to make to you . This request you will grant or deny . In either case , as I shall have entered the Palace of the Luxembourg in the interest o £ the First Consul , Bonaparte , and the royalist party to which I belong , I shall ask for your word of honor that I be allowed to leave it as freely as you allow me to enter . If to-morrow , at seven in the evening , I see a solitary light in the window over the clock , I shall know that Colonel Roland de Montrevel has pledged me his word of honor , and I shall boldly present myself at the little door of the left wing of the palace , opening on the garden . I shall strike three blows at intervals , after the manner of the free-masons . In order that you may know to whom you engage or refuse your word , I sign a name which is known to you , that name having been , under circumstances you have probably not forgotten , pronounced before you . MORGAN , Chief of the Companions of Jehu .