twelve o'clock
His own eyes had seen the thing appear , just as he had seen it upon the night when Dacre Wynne had vanished . But he did n't shoot at it this time . Instead , he packed a small bag , ran over and said good-bye to ` Toinette and told her he was going to have a day in town , but told her nothing else . Then he took the twelve o'clock train to town . A taxi whisked him to Scotland Yard . And this was the extraordinary chain of events which brought young Merriton into Mr. Narkom 's office that day while Cleek was sitting there , and on being introduced as `` Mr. Headland '' heard the story from Sir Nigel 's lips . As he came to the last `` And no trace of either body has ever been found , '' Cleek suddenly switched round in his chair and exclaimed : `` An extraordinary rigmarole altogether ! ''