8:21
Of course I knew better than to believe the statement of the elopement . I had seen and heard enough of village life to realize how the slightest circumstance was magnified by the community loafers . That Dicky and the girl took the same train , going and coming from the city , was a fact borne out by my own observations . I had remarked Dicky 's regularity in catching the 8:21 in the mornings , something so opposed to his usual unpunctual habits , and wondered why . Now I had the solution . I told myself , dully , that I was not surprised ; that I had really known all along something like this was coming . My thoughts went back to the night , a few weeks before , when I had suffered a similar paroxysm of grief over Dicky 's evident interest in the girl .