three a.m
Thorpe had been right and Phil had n't dared to tell him what had happened in the fog . `` Bridle paths of the Unusual '' with a vengeance ! He 'd soon have all the ingredients to write one of those wild yarns himself ! He could n't ask for a more beautiful or accomplished heroine than Cristy , or a more interesting place to start the love story than in a dense fog at three a.m. . Then there was this fifty thousand dollars vanishing so mysteriously and Podmore -- with a little polishing he would work up into a first-class villain ; as he stood he was a joke and it was impossible to imagine him even risking a punch on the nose to capture the girl . Nickleby might be better for the real dirty work -- or Rives . `` Sixty Buckets of Blood or The Hobo 's Revenge ! ''