five
o'clock before
Says you 're responsible for his being there -- whatever that means . '' `` I 'm on , '' says I. `` When do I start ? '' There 's a train at three-thirty-four ; so that gives me time to chase around to the house after a grip , then back to the office to gather up a bundle of late letters , and pike for Jersey City . And at that it 's five o'clock before I 'm landed at a little flag station umpteen miles beyond nowhere . My ! but the north end of Jersey has some up and down to it , though ! From what I 'd heard I thought the State was all meadows ; but here I am carted in a four-horse bus up the side of a hill that 's twice as tall as the Metropolitan tower .