8 o'clock A.M.
She recalled him to the present by walking to the window . He started , bade her good-by , and retired . He tossed about all night in a feverish sleep , tormented with dreams which transformed Lily into a small child which he was compelled to carry in his arms , or furnished his Aunt Formica with a long spear , with which she pursued him , and was forever on the point of overtaking him . At 8 o'clock A.M. he might have been seen by a detective at the Twenty-seventh Street dépôt . A few minutes after he was going through the tunnel ; and , emerging from that , he considered himself fairly divided from New York . At the first station beyond the State-line of Massachusetts he consulted a map , and concluded to stop at the junction of the Old Colony Railroad . There he changed the route , and in the evening reached a town which seemed waiting to go somewhere else , where he passed the night .