about ten o'clock
His Lordship accordingly went to London , and disappeared for a month -- ostensibly to Scotland , in reality to America ; and no one on the Allan liner suspected for a moment that the little man in civilian 's clothes , whose name appeared on the passenger-list as Mr. Banborough , was the Bishop of Blanford . His thirty days of grace allowed him but two weeks in the States , and here fortune seemed to have deserted him , for , on his arrival , he learned that his son had gone South . A wild-goose chase to Washington consumed much valuable time , and , with only forty-eight hours to spare , he arrived at Cecil 's quarters in New York on the day when that young gentleman was madly driving a Black Maria out of the city . Discouraged and disheartened at his lack of success , the Bishop took a train for Montreal , and found himself , about ten o'clock on that evening , owing to faulty orders and a misplaced switch , stranded at a little station just on the dividing line between Canada and the United States . `` And when can I proceed on my journey to Montreal ? '' he queried of the station-master . `` Sure I do n't know , '' responded that individual briefly .