eleven o'clock
Together the party rode to the cathedral , the majority of the older nobility now openly espousing the cause of the Regent . At the palace Barney was about distracted . Butzow was urging him to take the crown whether he was Leopold or not , for the young lieutenant saw no hope for Lutha , if either the scoundrelly Regent or the cowardly man whom Barney had assured him was the true king should come into power . It was eleven o'clock . In another hour Barney knew that he must have found some new solution of his dilemma , for there seemed little probability that the king would be located in the brief interval that remained before the coronation . He wondered what they did to people who stole thrones . For a time he figured his chances of reaching the border ahead of the enraged populace .