three o'clock in the morning
`` There 's no trouble ! It 's only a little Englishman who do n't know our ways yet . '' Inside the building the postal force , white and scared yet over the menacing growl of the beast they had so nearly roused , hastened to resume their tasks . I heard later that the last man in line reached the window only at three o'clock in the morning . Also that next day McGlynn was summoned by Geary , then postmaster , to account for his share in the row ; and that in the end Geary apologized and was graciously forgiven by McGlynn ! I can well believe it . We found Yank and Talbot still at the edge of the hotel veranda .