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"It is nearly eight now." She, thinking that he had his own journey in mind, remarked casually: "You'd best be here well before nine. The train leaves at nine-twenty, and father walks very slowly." "I won't be late," he said. "Best give me the key of the back door. I'll let myself in that way." "No occasion to do that," she retorted. "The front door will be open.
This was about three-fifteen in the afternoon. That night at nine-twenty, four Air Force officers, two pilots, and two intelligence officers from Maxwell AFB in Montgomery, Alabama, saw a bright light traveling across the sky. It was first seen just above the horizon, and as it traveled toward the observers it "zigzagged," with bursts of high speed.
As she supposed, it was from Lauriston, and had been handed in at Peebles at eleven o'clock that morning. "Got necessary information returning at once meet me at King's Cross at nine-twenty this evening. Zillah looked at her watch. It was then ten minutes to nine. There was just half an hour before Lauriston's train was due.
M. Firon-Badinier was to take the train for Evreux at nine-twenty, and when nine o'clock struck, the other, now eager to be rid of him, contrived to pack him off in a cab to the St.-Lazare railway station. For a moment Beauchene remained standing on the pavement with Mathieu, and took off his hat in order that the mild breezes of that delightful May evening might cool his burning head.
"Any news?" he asked sharply. "He's off, Mr. Starmidge!" replied Gandam. "I've just come straight from watching him away. He left his house about nine-twenty, walked to the St. John's Wood Station, went down to Baker Street, and on to King's Cross Metropolitan. We followed him, of course. He walked across to St. Pancras, and left by the ten-thirty express."
Ray and I left the building together. As we turned into Pall Mall he glanced at his watch. "You have missed the six o'clock train," he remarked. "I suppose you know that there is nothing now till the nine-twenty. Will you come to the club with me, and have some dinner?" It was less an invitation than a command.
"Here come Miss Towne and Olga!" cried Kent. "Margery'll be late, of course." At nine-fifteen Margery was driven up in state by Elviry, and at nine-twenty the carryall was off to the north in a cloud of dust, leaving Adam howling dismally at the gate.
You may have to wait a little while, and you must have patience." "Don't worry about me," answered Ted; "I have plenty of that. I'll be here when the snipe come down, and if any of them get away, charge them to me." After they had been gone some time Ted lit a match and looked at his watch. It was a quarter to nine. The Overland Express was due in Green River at nine-twenty.
He ate lunch at the hotel, borrowed a hundred dollars from the agent of Louis Sands, a lumberman of his acquaintance; and seated himself rigidly in the little waiting room, there to remain until the nine-twenty that night. When the cars were backed down from the siding, he boarded the sleeper. In the doorway stood a disapproving colored porter.
Miss Akemit, it appeared, was bent upon relating the adventures of Goldie Locks, subsequent to her leap from the window of the bears' house. She had, it seemed, been compelled to ride nine-twenty miles on a trolley, and, reaching home too late for luncheon, had been obliged to eat in the kitchen with the cook. "Mr. Bines can't stay, darling!"
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