five o'clock
I asked . `` I 'm the depity , '' he answered . I saw at once that I was on the right track ; phonetic spelling had again misled me . A half-crown tip put the deputy 's knowledge at my disposal , and I learned that Mr. Bloxam , who had slept off the remains of his beer on the previous night at Corcoran 's , had left for his work at Poplar at five o'clock that morning . He could not tell me where the place of work was situated , but he had a vague idea that it was some kind of a `` new-fangled ware'us '' ; and with this slender clue I had to start for Poplar . It was twelve o'clock before I got any satisfactory hint of such a building , and this I got at a coffee-shop , where some workmen were having their dinner . One of these suggested that there was being erected at Cross Angel Street a new `` cold storage '' building ; and as this suited the condition of a `` new-fangled ware'us , '' I at once drove to it .