ten
o'clock in the morning
And I am morally sure that at the party Geltmann means to meet his confederate -- Miss Ballister or Madame Ybanca , as the case may be -- and to receive from her the bit of paper that means so much to him and to those he is serving in the capacity of a paid agent . It will be easy enough to do the thing there ; whereas a meeting in any other place , public or private , might be dangerous for both of them . `` Miss Ballister will be coming over from Washington to-morrow . She has a chair-car reservation on the Pennsylvania train leaving there at ten o'clock in the morning . I do n't know what train Madame Ybanca will take , but the news will be coming to me by wire before she is aboard the train . Each one of them is now being shadowed ; each one of them will be shadowed for every moment while she is on her way and during her stay here ; and of course Geltmann can not stir a step outside his suite at the Hotel Atminster , on Fortieth Street , without being under observation . He did n't know it , but he was under observation when he woke up yesterday morning .