five in the afternoon
`` He is going to speak , '' she whispered and pointed . Her tense air of expectancy expressed much of the feeling of the crowd . `` See , listen , he is going to speak out . '' It must have been five in the afternoon when the men got through marching . They were massed in there clear down to the Twelfth Street Station of the Illinois Central . McGregor lifted his hands . In the hush his harsh voice carried far .