about noon
I remembered how it had only been by constant chewing at them that I had got a sort of meaning , and I wondered if fate would some day expound this puzzle also . Meantime I had to get back to London as inconspicuously as I had come . It might take some doing , for the police who had been active in Morvern might be still on the track , and it was essential that I should keep out of trouble and give no hint to Gresson and his friends that I had been so far north . However , that was for Amos to advise me on , and about noon I picked up my waterproof with its bursting pockets and set off on a long detour up the coast . All that blessed day I scarcely met a soul . I passed a distillery which seemed to have quit business , and in the evening came to a little town on the sea where I had a bed and supper in a superior kind of public-house . Next day I struck southward along the coast , and had two experiences of interest .