about five
minutes after two
If you ever follered a lame eel -- and a lame eel as makes no more of its lameness than if lameness was a advantage -- you 'd know what it is to foller that chap in the furred coat . '' The detective hooked his arm through that of his assistant , and led Mr. Tibbles out of the station by a door which opened on a desolate region at the back of that building . `` Now then , '' said Mr. Carter , `` tell me all about it , and look sharp . '' `` Well , I was waitin ' in the Shorncliffe ticket-offis , and about five minutes after two in comes the gent as large as life , and I sees him take his ticket , and I hears him say Derby , on which I waits till he 's out of the offis , and I takes my own ticket , same place . Down we comes here with more changes and botheration than ever was ; and every time we changes carriages , which we do n't seem to do much else the whole time , I spots my gentleman , limpin ' awful , and lookin ' about him suspicious-like , to see if he was watched . And , of course , he were n't watched -- oh , no ; nothin ' like it . Of all the innercent young men as ever was exposed to the temptations of this wicked world , there never was sech a young innercent as that lawyer 's clerk , a carryin ' a blue bag , and a tellin ' a promiskruous acquaintance , loud enough for the gent in the fur coat to hear , that he 'd been telegraphed for by his master , which was down beyond Hull , on electioneerin ' business ; and a cussin ' of his master promiskruous to the same acquaintance for tele-graphin ' for him to go by sech a train .