six o'clock
The closer he got to New York , the more active and wide-awake they would become . He walked the streets , his glance constantly roving . But apparently no one paid the least attention to him . Finally he returned to the railway station ; and at six o'clock that evening he left the platform of the 125th Street Station , and appraised covertly the men who accompanied him to the street . He felt assured that they were all Americans . Probably they were ; but there are still some stray fools of American birth who can not accept the great American doctrine as the only Ararat visible in this present flood . Perhaps one of these accompanied Hawksley to the street .