about three o'clock in the morning
He roused himself , and began to bethink him how to be extricated from this labyrinth . Two hours sawing across the grating of the window , ridded him of his handcuffs . Next came the door , secured luckily with only a hasp and padlock . Thrusting the bolt of his handcuffs through a small window in the door , he succeeded in forcing the hasp and regaining his liberty about three o'clock in the morning . Not long after sunrise , he passed nigh Brentford , some six or seven miles from the capital . So great was his hunger that downright starvation seemed before him . He chewed grass , and swallowed it .