four o'clock
But when old Number Eleven , which is its official railroad name , pulls into Homeburg from Chicago each afternoon , loaded with mail , news , passengers , home-comers , adventurers , mysterious strangers , friends , brides , heroes , widows and coffins , you can just bet we 're there to see her . It 's the town pastime . We all do it . Whenever a Homeburg man has nothing else to do at four o'clock , he steps over to the depot and joins the long line which leans up against the depot wall and keeps it in place during the crisis . Some of them have n't missed a roll-call in years . Old Bill Dorgan , the drayman , has stood on the platform every day since the line was built , rain or shine . Josh James , the colored porter of the Cosmopolitan Hotel , knows more traveling men than William J. Bryan .