four o'clock
In the hotel room he dug his pocket time table from his grip , and no hungry reader ever plunged into the pages of the latest `` Best Seller '' more avidly than did he thumb those flimsy pages . His capable fingers turned the leaves rapidly and , being expert and highly trained in working out the abstruse puzzles and problems with which time table people always try to fill their books so that people will get tired of seeking information and look at the advertisements , in less than five minutes he slammed the book shut and almost viciously hurled it back into his bag . `` By Heck ! '' he muttered , despairingly , `` no train out till four o'clock to-morrow morning and -- I 'll bet it smells of new laid milk and long laid cows . There 'll be an hour 's delay while they fill the baggage car with chickens in coops . Serves the chickens right for getting up that early . Ought to go some place and have their heads chopped off .