three o’clock
` You see now , ' said the King , ` why I would not kill him . He is a bold man among my logs , but , ' and he shook his head like a schoolmaster , ` I know that before long there will be complaints of him in the court . Let us return to the Palace and do justice . ' It was that King 's custom to judge his subjects every day between eleven and three o'clock . I saw him decide equitably in weighty matters of trespass , slander , and a little wife-stealing . Then his brow clouded and he summoned me . ` Again it is Namgay Doola , ' he said despairingly .