six o'clock
`` How do you propose finding him ? '' asked Clancy . `` I shall arrive at 5.11 , '' replied the peculiar little man of news quietly . `` Before six o'clock I shall have one of the best detective agencies in the world scouring the city . '' The train came steaming into the station on time and the shortstop and the reporter crowded closer to the gates , watching the stream of hurrying passengers rushing through the narrow gates and spreading , fan-like , across the great floor . Suddenly Swanson 's elbow jarred against the reporter 's body , causing the frail statistician to wince . `` Look there ! ''