three o'clock
Radway breathed again , then sighed . Spring was eight days nearer . He was eight days more behind . As soon as loading began , the cook served breakfast at three o'clock . The men worked by the light of torches , which were often merely catsup jugs with wicking in the necks . Nothing could be more picturesque than a teamster conducting one of his great pyramidical loads over the little inequalities of the road , in the ticklish places standing atop with the bent knee of the Roman charioteer , spying and forestalling the chances of the way with a fixed eye and an intense concentration that relaxed not one inch in the miles of the haul . Thorpe had become a full-fledged cant-hook man .