five o'clock in the afternoon
With this gentleman he had a long interview ; and the result of that interview was the departure of the Captain by the two o'clock express for Ullerton . Thus had it happened that Valentine Hawkehurst and his patron encountered each other on the platform of Ullerton station . _ Oct. 7th , Midnight _ . I was so fortunate as to get away from Spotswold this morning very soon after the completion of my researches in the vestry , and at five o'clock in the afternoon I found myself once more in the streets of Ullerton . Coming home in the train I meditated seriously upon the unexpected appearance of Horatio Paget at the head-quarters of this Haygarthian investigation ; and the more I considered that fact , the more I felt inclined to doubt my patron 's motives , and to fear his interference . Can his presence in Ullerton have any relation to the business that has brought me here ? That is the question which I asked myself a hundred times during my journey from Spotswold ; that is the question which I ask myself still .