10 a.m.
_ Come instantly . Highly important . Logan _ , _ Kirkburn _ . ' Merton dressed himself more rapidly than he had ever done , and caught the train leaving King 's Cross at 10 a.m. II . The Emu 's Feathers The landscape through which Merton passed on his northward way to Kirkburn , whither Logan had summoned him , was blank with snow . The snow was not more than a couple of inches deep where it had not drifted , and , as frost had set in , it was not likely to deepen . There was no fear of being snowed up .