eight in the evening
I shall give it here more consecutively than my impatience for the event permitted him to give it to me . About ten days before , a paragraph in one of Burbank 's `` pilgrimage '' speeches had been twisted by the reporter so that it seemed a personal attack upon Scarborough . As Burbank was a stickler for the etiquette of campaigning , he not only sent out a denial and a correction but also directed De Milt to go to Scarborough 's home at Saint X , Indiana , and convey the explanation in a personal message . De Milt arrived at Saint X at eight in the evening . As he was leaving the parlor car he saw a man emerge from its drawing-room , make a hasty descent to the platform , hurriedly engage a station hack and drive away . De Milt had an amazing memory for identities -- something far rarer than memory merely for faces . He was convinced he knew that man ; and being shrewd and quick of thought , he jumped into a trap and told the driver to follow the hack which was just disappearing .