three o'clock
Thompson was badly rattled , for he had n't a grain of sand in his composition , but in the end he conquered his fears and agreed to play the part Porter assigned to him . At half-past two a disjointed-looking train panted into the Harrison Street Station , and Judge Black climbed disconsolately out of the smoker . There was a coating of cinders on the top of his derby hat ; there were drifts of cinders in the curl of the brim ; there were streaks of cinders along the lines where his coat wrinkled ; and there was one cinder in his left eye which gave him so leery and bibulous an aspect that an old lady who narrowly escaped colliding with him turned and looked after him in indignation , being half minded to go back and plead with him to lead a better life . It was fifteen minutes later when the Judge reached Porter 's office , but before three o'clock he had signed an order enjoining James Weeks and Johnson Myers from acting as directors of , or from interfering in any way with , the affairs of the corporation known as the Manchester & Truesdale Railroad Company , and from voting the nine thousand shares of stock in that company which had been issued September 25th . On Friday afternoon Harvey closed his desk with a feeling of relief . There had been plenty of work for the past few days , and Harvey 's thoughts had acquired such wandering habits that his work seemed harder than usual . He had not seen Katherine since Tuesday evening , but another note , dated Thursday evening , was in his coat pocket .