nine o’clock before
But at night , instead of setting forth into the country as before , he wandered into the streets ; and , in the course of his walk , happened to pass the door of the Snuggery . What happened to him there is already known ; but what became of him afterwards remains to be seen . On leaving Zack , he walked straight on ; not slackening his pace , not noticing whither he went , not turning to go back till daybreak . It was past nine o'clock before he presented himself at the tobacco-shop , bringing in with him a goodly share of mud and wet from the thawing ground and rainy sky outside . His long walk did not seem to have relieved the uneasiness of mind which had induced him to separate so suddenly from Zack . He talked almost perpetually to himself in a muttering , incoherent way ; his heavy brow was contracted , and the scars of the old wounds on his face looked angry and red . The first thing he did was to make some inquiries of his landlord relating to railway traveling , and to the part of London in which a certain terminus that he had been told of was situated .