about two o'clock
A black-bordered funeral notice , veiled with crape , announced that the great Caller-home of exiles had served his summons upon Don Pedro Hernandez -LRB- surname borrowed for the occasion -RRB- , and Don Carlos Mendez y Benito . The hour for the funeral was fixed at four P.M. . It never took place . Down at the Picayune Tier on the river bank there was , about two o'clock that same day , a slight commotion , and those who stood aimlessly about a small , neat schooner , said she was `` seized . '' At four there suddenly appeared before the Café des Exilés a squad of men with silver crescents on their breasts -- police officers . The old cottage sat silent with closed doors , the crape hanging heavily over the funeral notice like a widow 's veil , the little unseen garden sending up odors from its hidden censers , and the old weeping-willow bending over all . `` Nobody here ? ''