twenty minutes after eight
`` I want to read you this , and then I want you to telephone to Bristol at once . '' He smoothed out the wrinkled single sheet of paper . `` My dear Governor Rudd , '' he read , -- `` My friends the McNaughtons of Bristol are friends of yours too , I think , and that is my reason for troubling you with this note . I am on my way to visit them now , and expected to take the train for Bristol at twenty minutes after eight to-night , but when I reached here at eight o'clock I found the time-table had been changed , and the train had gone out twenty minutes before . And there is no other till to-morrow . I do n't know what to do or where to go , and you are the only person in the city whose name I know . Would it trouble you to advise me where to go for the night -- what hotel , if it is right for me to go to a hotel ?