Why did the police suspect George of being criminal or drunk
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Due to the malfunctioning of his watch, George had to face some trouble. One night his watch stopped at quarter past eight. By chance George got up at two o clock at night. Seeing the watch he thought he had got late; so he dressed up and went out. Outside he found no soul astir except the police. On enquiring from a constable he came to know it was three o clock. The constable advised him to go back to his home.
And George went home again, musing as he walked along, and let himself in. At first, when he got in, he determined to undress and go to bed again; but when he thought of the redressing and re-washing, and the having of another bath, he determined he would not, but would sit up and go to sleep in the easy-chair.
But he could not get to sleep: he never felt more wakeful in his life; so he lit the lamp and got out the chess-board, and played himself a game of chess. But even that did not enliven him: it seemed slow somehow; so he gave chess up and tried to read. He did not seem able to take any sort of interest in reading either, so he put on his coat again and went out for a walk.
It was horribly lonesome and dismal, and all the policemen he met regarded him with undisguised suspicion, and turned their lanterns on him and followed him about, and this had such an effect upon him at last that he began to feel as if he really had done something.