three o'clock in the afternoon
The place showed evidences of having been used as a camp , but not recently , and Bart went on a general blind hunt . He traversed the woods for miles , both sides of a dried up rivercourse , and inquired at farmhouses and of occasional pedestrians he met . It was all of no avail . At three o'clock in the afternoon , tired , bramble-torn and a little discouraged , he sat down by the roadside to rest and think . He began to censure himself for taking the independent course he had pursued . `` I should have telegraphed the company the circumstances of the burglary , and put the matter in the hands of the Pleasantville police , '' he reflected . `` If the trunk had belonged to anybody except Mrs. Colonel Harrington , I would have done so at once .