ten o'clock
He was weary at heart riding over sickly flowers ; he wanted flesh and bones and the music of the death-rattle . His cousins , War and Pestilence , still took their tithes . Why should he be denied ? The whispering became a murmuring , and the murmuring grew into excitable chattering ; and by ten o'clock that night all the bazaars knew that the ancient rites of Juggernaut were to be revived that night . The bazaars had never heard of Nero , called Ahenobarbus , and being without companions , they missed the greatness of their august but hampered regent Umballa . Always the bazaars heard news before any other part of the city . The white Mem-sahib was not dead , but had been recaptured while posing as the zenana physician in an attempt to rescue her sister , the new queen .