About ten o'clock
`` I suppose you would like to hear what I have to say about the affair , '' said Goodwin , coming directly to the point . `` It will not require many words . `` On that night , with others of our friends here , I was keeping a lookout for the president , having been notified of his flight by a telegram in our national cipher from Englehart , one of our leaders in the capital . About ten o'clock that night I saw a man and a woman hurrying along the streets . They went to the Hotel de los Estranjeros , and engaged rooms . I followed them upstairs , leaving Estebán , who had come up , to watch outside . The barber had told me that he had shaved the beard from the president 's face that night ; therefore I was prepared , when I entered the rooms , to find him with a smooth face .