Friday at twelve o’clock
Lord Arthur laid down £ 4 , 2s . 6d . on the table , thanked the little German for his kindness , and , having succeeded in declining an invitation to meet some Anarchists at a meat-tea on the following Saturday , left the house and went off to the Park . For the next two days he was in a state of the greatest excitement , and on Friday at twelve o'clock he drove down to the Buckingham to wait for news . All the afternoon the stolid hall-porter kept posting up telegrams from various parts of the country giving the results of horse-races , the verdicts in divorce suits , the state of the weather , and the like , while the tape ticked out wearisome details about an all-night sitting in the House of Commons , and a small panic on the Stock Exchange . At four o'clock the evening papers came in , and Lord Arthur disappeared into the library with the _ Pall Mall _ , the _ St. James 's _ , the _ Globe _ , and the _ Echo _ , to the immense indignation of Colonel Goodchild , who wanted to read the reports of a speech he had delivered that morning at the Mansion House , on the subject of South African Missions , and the advisability of having black Bishops in every province , and for some reason or other had a strong prejudice against the _ Evening News _ . None of the papers , however , contained even the slightest allusion to Chichester , and Lord Arthur felt that the attempt must have failed .