three o'clock
`` Is it ? '' cried Bart , in profound admiration of the old bookworm 's system . `` Professor , you are the wisest man and one of the best men I ever met ! '' At three o'clock that afternoon Bart Stirling sat down to rest at the side of a dusty country road , pretty well tired out , and about ready to return to Pleasantville . When old Professor Cunningham gave him the names Buck and Hank Tolliver , Bart was positive that the same covered the identity of the two men who had been at the Sharp Corner with Lem Wacker . Bart had started at once for Millville . His first intention was to get a conveyance at the livery stable , his first impulse to solicit the co-operation of the town police .