twenty minutes past one
Or perhaps she had arrived just before he died . Such were his stammered comments . And he repeated a score of times that she had taken the train at ten minutes past eleven and must have reached Batignolles about half-past twelve . As she had handed in the telegram at twenty minutes past one it seemed more likely that she had found the lad already dead . `` Curse it ! curse it ! '' he shouted ; `` a cursed telegram , it tells you nothing , and it murders you !