about two
o'clock in the afternoon
Red and two or three uv his fellers got away , but I ` ai n't heard uv 'em since . Guess they 've scattered . '' `` Wisest thing they could do , '' said Harley . The guide made no answer , and they plodded on in silence until about two o'clock in the afternoon , when they stopped in a little cove to eat luncheon and refresh their horses . It was the first grateful spot they had seen in hours . A brook fed by the snows above formed a pool in the hollow , and then , overflowing it , dropped down the mountain-wall . But in this sheltered nook and around the life-giving water green grass was growing , and there was a rim of goodly trees .