five in the morning
The first train for Paris left Meulan at eleven minutes past four in the morning . It was now a quarter after two . I left the captain , crew , and launch in charge of two of my men , with orders to proceed to Paris as soon as it was daylight . I , supported by the third man , waited at the station with our English prisoner , and reached Paris at half-past five in the morning . The English prisoner , though severely interrogated by the judge , stood by his story . Inquiry by the police in London proved that what he said of himself was true . His case , however , began to look very serious when two of the men from the launch asserted that they had seen him push the Frenchman overboard , and their statement could not be shaken .