about nine o'clock
Phineas went to Ostend by Dover and Calais , but he took the day route on Friday . It had all been arranged among them , so that there might be no suspicion as to the job in hand . Even O'Shaughnessy and Laurence Fitzgibbon had left London by separate trains . They met on the sands at Blankenberg about nine o'clock on the Saturday morning , having reached that village in different vehicles from Ostend and Bruges , and had met quite unobserved amidst the sand-heaps . But one shot had been exchanged , and Phineas had been wounded in the right shoulder . He had proposed to exchange another shot with his left hand , declaring his capability of shooting quite as well with the left as with the right ; but to this both Colepepper and Fitzgibbon had objected . Lord Chiltern had offered to shake hands with his late friend in a true spirit of friendship , if only his late friend would say that he did not intend to prosecute his suit with the young lady .