midnight
The telegram to be sent out was worded : -- `` I strongly advise all investors to cancel by wire their applications for shares in Hudson Bay Transport . See explanation in Daily Truth of May 3rd . -- Clifford Matheson . '' Martin , who was leaving for London by a midnight train , took charge of the three letters and promised to have them safely delivered to the three Directors of the company early in the morning . * * * * * Two days later , Matheson had to leave his wife in the hands of the doctors in order to attend a brief meeting of the Board of Directors of Hudson Bay Transport , Ltd. . They were seated in the stately board-room of the London and United Kingdom Bank in Lombard Street , at one end of the huge oval table over which the affairs of nations are settled . Clifford Matheson was in the chair .