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Updated: June 24, 2025
People speak in hushed tones. One afternoon, the engineer's wife, observing the altitude of the sun, looked at the clock and saw that the time was a few minutes before five. Tom's whistle had not yet blown. At five-fifteen came the sound of another whistle. It was prolonged and then repeated. The engineer's wife stood still and counted. Five!
I had said to myself on going to sleep, "Six o'clock, sharp!" There are men I know who can wake themselves at any time to the minute. They say to themselves literally, as they lay their heads upon the pillow, "Four-thirty," "Four-forty-five," or "Five-fifteen," as the case may be; and as the clock strikes they open their eyes.
"So you caught the five-fifteen after all!" was Eleanor's greeting as the model juror jumped off the train. "I was terribly afraid you wouldn't! I hope you didn't let any rascal get away from you?" "No!" He laughed as he leaped into the motor beside her. "Not a rascal! And I've got a surprise for you! I'm going to have my vacation after all!" "Really!" she cried, delighted. "You clever boy!
Nanda asked the hour and, on his replying "Five-fifteen," remarked that there would now be tea on the terrace with every one gathered at it. "Then shall we go and join them?" her companion demanded. He had made, however, no other motion, and when after hesitating she said "Yes, with pleasure" it was also without a change of position. "I like this," she inconsequently added. "So do I awfully.
Next day I noticed the sign hung up; but I didn't know which sky parlor was vacant until I strolls in at five-fifteen Friday night and finds my things out in the hall and a new lodger in my room. "Oh, well," says I, "what's a sudden move now and then to a free lance like me?"
A sergeant of police recounted how he had been first summoned to the scene of burning, and afterward arrested Tryst; Sir Gerald's agent described the eviction and threats uttered by the evicted man; two persons, a stone-breaker and a tramp, narrated that they had seen him going in the direction of the rick and barn at five o'clock, and coming away therefrom at five-fifteen.
"If we missed that train at five-fifteen, we should have to wait till ten for the next." "And it'd be much safer," Amaryllis broke in, "to wait on the moor, than in a village or a station where people could see us." "Yes. I'm not clear-headed enough now to see into Melchard's mind, but I can still calculate on what I know.
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