six o'clock
`` I will go with you to Mr. Renfrew the first thing in the morning and get him to draw up a paper testifying that you are engaged in lawful business , and are making inquiries with a view to discovering a crime which has been committed , and recommending you to the assistance of the police in any town you may go to . Then if you go with that to the head constable at Hicks Ford he will tell you which are the places at which such fellows as these would have been likely to put up for the night , and perhaps send a policeman with you to make inquiries . If you get any news telegraph to me at once . I will start by the six o'clock train on the following morning . Do you be on the platform to meet me , and we can then either go straight on to Florence , or , should there be any occasion , I will get out there ; but I do n't think that is likely . Pearson himself will , to a certainty , sooner or later , go to Florence to get his luggage , and the only real advantage we shall get if your inquiries are successful will be to find out for certain whether he is concerned in the affair . We shall then only have to follow his traces from Florence . ''