eight o’clock
Like a dog called to heel by the huntsman , des Lupeaulx left his present quest and went immediately to his own rooms , thinking of his hazardous position . Imagine a general to whom an aide-de-camp rides up and says : `` The enemy with thirty thousand fresh troops is attacking on our right flank . '' A very few words will serve to explain this sudden arrival of Gigonnet and Gobseck on the field of battle , -- for des Lupeaulx found them both waiting . At eight o'clock that evening , Martin Falleix , returning on the wings of the wind , -- thanks to three francs to the postboys and a courier in advance , -- had brought back with him the deeds of the property signed the night before . Taken at once to the Cafe Themis by Mitral , these securities passed into the hands of the two usurers , who hastened -LRB- though on foot -RRB- to the ministry . It was past eleven o'clock . Des Lupeaulx trembled when he saw those sinister faces , emitting a simultaneous look as direct as a pistol shot and as brilliant as the flash itself .