twenty minutes to ten
His last act in the Palace was the sending to the Treasurer at Jerusalem , for Miss Frankl , the telegram : `` Be surprised , but believe : I am a Jew . '' `` RICHARD '' . Of the Household some fifty , catching wind of what was toward , offered , even begged , to go with him ; but in general he refused , and set out with a suite of only seven . They reached Hastings at twenty minutes to ten , where , to the disgust of all , the region of Central Station was found crowded ; whereupon Sir Francis Yeames held a consultation with a local rector , and a dash was made to a private hotel near the pier . There , looking from behind window curtains at eleven , Hogarth saw before a paper-shop : FLIGHT OF THE REGENT A minute afterwards he started backward from the splintered window . Everything was known : LIFE-HISTORY OF THE CONVICT HOGARTH MARVELLOUS DETAILS The street , to its two vanishing-points , was one scene of hats , mixed with upturned faces : and it was an aggressive crowd that gave out a sound . Not till noon did the _ Boodah II .