four in the afternoon
According to his mother 's plan , he was to put that safely away , and add her half of his pension to it monthly . In one year this fund would buy her free again . For a whole week he was not able to sleep well , so much the villainy which he had played upon his trusting mother preyed upon his rag of a conscience ; but after that he began to get comfortable again , and was presently able to sleep like any other miscreant . The boat bore Roxy away from St. Louis at four in the afternoon , and she stood on the lower guard abaft the paddle-box and watched Tom through a blur of tears until he melted into the throng of people and disappeared ; then she looked no more , but sat there on a coil of cable crying till far into the night . When she went to her foul steerage-bunk at last , between the clashing engines , it was not to sleep , but only to wait for the morning , and , waiting , grieve . It had been imagined that she `` would not know , '' and would think she was traveling up stream . She !