nearly three in the afternoon
The sagacious Hughey was due for a severe jolt when he opened the precious envelope to which he was devoting so much attention . On returning to the house he found that Miss Lawson very sensibly had retired for much needed sleep . He climbed the hill to the woods behind the log shanty and stretched out luxuriously on a fragrant heap of spruce boughs with the idea of indulging in pleasant retrospection . The sun was well past its zenith when he awoke and his watch told him that it was nearly three in the afternoon . He rubbed his eyes , knotted his muscles in a satisfying stretch and leaped to his feet with a laugh . He found the girl in equally good spirits , the injured foot encased in a mocassin that belonged to one of the foreman 's children . It was not a bad sprain ; the pain and swelling had subsided , but it would be well to rest it for two or three days , Mrs. Thorlakson had told her .