four
o'clock in the afternoon
Calloway did the obviously proper thing . He lit his pipe and sat down on a gun carriage to think it over . And there we must leave him ; for the rest of the story belongs to Vesey , a sixteen-dollar-a-week reporter on the _ Enterprise _ . Calloway 's cablegram was handed to the managing editor at four o'clock in the afternoon . He read it three times ; and then drew a pocket mirror from a pigeon-hole in his desk , and looked at his reflection carefully . Then he went over to the desk of Boyd , his assistant -LRB- he usually called Boyd when he wanted him -RRB- , and laid the cablegram before him . `` It 's from Calloway , '' he said .