one minute past eight
Wonder if eating is on this schedule . I 'd have laid in something besides a chop and a roll this morning at breakfast if I 'd known what was ahead . '' The Lenox Station was easily reached on time . The hands of the big clock were only at one minute past eight when Cyrus entered . At the designated spot the messenger met him . Cyrus recognized the man as a porter on one of the trains of the road of which his grandfather and father were officers . Why , yes , he was the porter of the Woodbridge special car !