10 o'clock
My old and worthy friend , Lord Callonby , who passed through here yesterday , has so warmly interested himself in your behalf , that I feel disposed to do all in my power to serve you ; independently of my desire to do so on your own account . Come over here , then , as soon as possible , and let us talk over your plans together . `` Believe me , most truly yours , `` Henry Carden . `` Barracks , 10 o'clock . '' However mysterious and difficult to unravel , have been some of the circumstances narrated in these `` Confessions , '' I do not scruple to avow that the preceding letter was to me by far the most inexplicable piece of fortune I had hitherto met with . That Lord Callonby should have converted one whom I believed an implacable foe , into a most obliging friend , was intelligible enough , seeing that his lordship had through life been the patron of the colonel ; but why he had so done , and what communications he could possibly have made with regard to me , that Colonel Carden should speak of `` my plans '' and proffer assistance in them was a perfect riddle ; and the only solution , one so ridiculously flattering that I dared not think of it . I read and re-read the note ; misplaced the stops ; canvassed every expression ; did all to detect a meaning different from the obvious one , fearful of a self-deception where so much was at stake .