three o'clock
He could telephone from there , very briefly , that he was going and that Hotchkiss was to send his things . He was beginning to discover some use for a butler , after all . He trudged on , growing very hot , but feeling more and more relieved at the thought of escape . The way , however , was longer than he had imagined , and three o'clock came , with the station not yet in sight . There was another train at five , he remembered , but thought that it would be better not to spend the intervening time waiting openly on the platform . He would be missed long before then and Jennings and Janet , or perhaps even Cousin Jasper himself , would come to look for him . It would be better for him to cross the nearest meadow and spend the two hours in the woods , or he might settle the question over which he had been wondering , whether there were really fish in that sharp bend of the river .