four in the afternoon
His brain kept repeating this in spite of him , so that he did not try to overtake the staff . And _ they _ -- the poor last fragment of them -- were piling back toward Judenbach , leaving their wounded behind . Goylan was back in Judenbach . It was four in the afternoon . He had searched everywhere for Peter Mowbray . The whole war zone was getting blacker and blacker to his sight . He had even gone to the Grim House to look for the white-fire creature who had taken his companion to her breast , figuratively speaking ; but neither she , nor the weak-shouldered little chap who had brought the hospital steward 's blouse , was there .