a quarter after two
` I quite agree with you there , ' he replied , with great nonchalance , taking a card from his pocket-book , which he handed to me . ` That is my London address ; you may make inquiries , and you will find I am exactly what I represent myself to be . ' 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 .