3 o'clock
What have we here ? ' '' ` I want to see Mr. Powell , please , ' I said , very civil but firm ; I would let nothing scare me away now . This was the Shipping Office right enough . It was after 3 o'clock and the business seemed over for the day with them . The long-necked fellow went on with his writing steadily . I observed that he was no longer grinning . The three others tossed their heads all together towards the far end of the room where a fifth man had been looking on at their antics from a high stool .