three o'clock
The whole world was waiting for his revelations . He spoke . * * * * * On the evening of the day on which his article appeared , the newspapers announced the kidnapping of M. Beautrelet , senior . Isidore was informed of it by a telegram from Cherbourg , which reached him at three o'clock . Young Beautrelet was stunned by the violence of the blow . As a matter of fact , although , in publishing his article , he had obeyed one of those irresistible impulses which make a man despise every consideration of prudence , he had never really believed in the possibility of an abduction . His precautions had been too thorough .