four o’clock
Now and then he had to dismount to examine the surface where the road forked . He enjoyed that rather . `` Trackin ' , '' he said aloud , and decided in the privacy of his own mind that he had a wonderful instinct for ` spoor . ' So he came past Goodwood station and Lavant , and approached Chichester towards four o'clock . And then came a terrible thing . In places the road became hard , in places were the crowded indentations of a recent flock of sheep , and at last in the throat of the town cobbles and the stony streets branching east , west , north , and south , at a stone cross under the shadow of the cathedral the tracks vanished . `` O Cricky ! ''