ten o'clock in the evening
I was to have good news at last of those I loved better than my life , those I had not forgotten a moment in all the peril of war . I saw the handwriting of Louison and then a vision of her -- the large eyes , the supple , splendid figure , the queenly bearing . It read ; -- `` MY DEAR THERESE : At last they promise to return us to you on the 12th of October . You are to send two men for us -- not more -- to the head of Eagle Island , off Ste. Roche , in the St. Lawrence , with canoes , at ten o'clock in the evening of that day . They will find a lantern hanging on a tree at the place we are to meet them . We may be delayed a little , but they are to wait for us there . And , as you love me , see that one is my brave captain -- I do not care about the other who comes .