three o’clock in the afternoon
`` Here is fifty dollars , '' he said , `` for your work of yesterday , and you will have more coming to you if these men are convicted . I want to congratulate you on what you have done so far . Come in this afternoon , and I think Mr. Van Bunting will have a new plan for you . '' AT three o'clock in the afternoon Archie was seated in Mr. Van Bunting 's office , together with Mr. Jennings and several of the chief members of the editorial staffs of both editions of the paper . The editors had spread out before them , on the large table , several maps , and most of them were busily engaged in making notes on little paper pads . All the time , however , an excited conversation was being carried on , for some editors wanted Archie to proceed to the Philippines one way , and some thought that the better plan would be for him to go by some other route . But the important fact with Archie was that he was really going to be sent to the Philippines as a war correspondent , and that he was going to start very shortly .