In chapter 5, fittingly titled “The Unguessed Beginning of Trouble,” Philip and Gerald encounter, on the train to New York, a man who claims to be Mr. Hilliard, but he is really the antagonist Mr. Jennison (37). In a moment that reveals Jennsion’s false identity and that anticipates how he attempts to manipulate both Philip and Gerald, he suggests that the boys are travelling to Newfoundland (38). After missing the train, they board the next train (42). However, after passing through Bergen Hill, they decide that it was good that they tell “Mr. Hilliard” not to wait for them in Jersey City because their train dropped them off in up-town New York and not Jersey City (43).