nine o'clock
Here 's a brown pair apiece , and we must n't let the grass grow under them if we 're to get to the station in time for the early train while the coast 's still clear . '' The early train leaves the station in question at 6.20 A.M. ; and that fine spring morning there was a police officer in a peaked cap to see it off ; but he was too busy peering into the compartments for a pair of very swell mobsmen that he took no notice of the huge man in riding-clothes , who was obviously intoxicated , or the more insignificant but not less horsy character who had him in hand . The early train is due at Victoria at 8.28 , but these worthies left it at Clapham Junction , and changed cabs more than once between Battersea and Piccadilly , and a few of their garments in each four-wheeler . It was barely nine o'clock when they sat together in the Albany , and might have been recognized once more as Raffles and myself . `` And now , '' said Raffles , `` before we do anything else , let us turn out those little cases that we had n't time to open when we took them . I mean the ones I handed to you , Bunny . I had a look into mine in the garden , and I 'm sorry to say there was nothing in them .