four in the afternoon
`` He said he must find him , and so we went up together . And the Captain , he asked me on the way , what could there be to inspect up the river now it was frozen over ? And I could n't see myself , I told him . And so we walked up all day to about three or four in the afternoon . ` We might see if he 's not in the hut here , ' I said , for I 'd heard the lumbermen used the place . Then the Captain would n't let me go on with him any farther , but told me to wait . And he walked up to the hut by himself , and went in .