five o'clock
And as he walked slowly back , blinking in the unaccustomed daylight , towards that dignified retirement in which the higher officials at Charing Cross shelter from the importunity of the vulgar , he smiled still at his unaccustomed energy . It was a very gratifying revelation of his own possibilities , in spite of the stiffness of his arm . He wished some of those confounded arm-chair critics of railway management could have seen it . By five o'clock that evening this amazing Cossar , with no appearance of hurry at all , had got all the stuff for his fight with insurgent Bigness out of Urshot and on the road to Hickleybrow . Two barrels of paraffin and a load of dry brushwood he had bought in Urshot ; plentiful sacks of sulphur , eight big game guns and ammunition , three light breechloaders , with small-shot ammunition for the wasps , a hatchet , two billhooks , a pick and three spades , two coils of rope , some bottled beer , soda and whisky , one gross of packets of rat poison , and cold provisions for three days , had come down from London . All these things he had sent on in a coal trolley and a hay waggon in the most business-like way , except the guns and ammunition , which were stuck under the seat of the Red Lion waggonette appointed to bring on Redwood and the five picked men who had come up from Ealing at Cossar 's summons . Cossar conducted all these transactions with an invincible air of commonplace , in spite of the fact that Urshot was in a panic about the rats , and all the drivers had to be specially paid .