afternoon about four o’clock
`` That would n't suit me . It does n't pay enough . '' Rodney began to hunt for a situation again , but four weeks passed and brought him no success . One afternoon about four o'clock he was walking up Broadway when , feeling tired , he stepped into the Continental Hotel at the corner of Twentieth Street . He took a seat at some distance back from the door , and in a desultory way began to look about him . All at once he started in surprise , for in a man sitting in one of the front row of chairs he recognized Louis Wheeler , the railroad thief who had stolen his box of jewelry . Wheeler was conversing with a man with a large flapping sombrero , and whose dress and general appearance indicated that he was a Westerner .