about two o'clock
I would go up to town in the morning , secure the packets , and read them in my lawyers ' office . I would not trust myself to carry them about with me while that man Saumarez was at large . It was very evident that the safe and its contents possessed a great attraction for him ; probably with very good reason . I caught the morning train to London , and arrived in Lincoln 's Inn about two o'clock , after lunching early at my club . There Messrs. Blackett & Snowdon 's managing clerk handed me the registered packet which I had sent off the evening before from the post office in Monmouth Street , Bath . With this in my hand I retired to the private office of Mr. Snowdon , who was away from town , his room being placed at my disposal by the managing clerk when I told him I had some important papers to examine . I sat down at the desk , cleared it of the few papers lying there , then prepared to open my precious parcel .