nine o'clock
Of course there was nothing to be done , but the man 's presence irritated Renwick . As the moments went on , and the man still silently stared out of the window , Renwick 's choler diminished . The fellow was quite harmless , a person from whom murder and secret missions were miles asunder . If the man of the green limousine had foreseen that Renwick would take the nine o'clock train for Budapest and had set this behemoth upon him , the man would have made an attempt upon his life this morning in the ride between Vacz and the capital . And how , since the telegraph lines were closed to the German agent , could this person have been put upon the scent ? It hardly seemed possible that this was an agent of Germany . And yet as the miles flew by , the stranger 's silence , immobility and unchanging expression got on Renwick 's nerves .