eight o'clock
Benoir , he had learned , carried the Wellington mail as well as express matter to the city , mornings and afternoons . In his absence , Armitage was , he felt , the logical man for this duty . So he did not worry about these contingencies . He had knowledge that up to eight o'clock that morning no package for foreign countries had been either mailed or expressed ; this eliminated the fear , which might otherwise have been warrantable , that the package had already been sent on its way to Europe . Besides , no man of Koltsoff 's experience would be likely to trust the delivery of so important an object to any but his own hands . Thus the probabilities were that the thing was at this minute in the Prince 's room . If all these suppositions were wrong , then Yeasky had it .