ten minutes past ten
This was precisely what I expected . A vagabond like Mr. Jay knows the importance of giving himself a respectable look when he is going to run the risk of changing a stolen bank-note . At five minutes past ten o'clock he had given the last brush to his shabby hat and the last scouring with bread-crumb to his dirty gloves . At ten minutes past ten he was in the street , on his way to the nearest cab-stand , and I and my subordinates were close on his heels . He took a cab and we took a cab . I had not overheard them appoint a place of meeting when following them in the Park on the previous day , but I soon found that we were proceeding in the old direction of the Avenue Road gate . The cab in which Mr. Jay was riding turned into the Park slowly .