five o'clock
He got aboard the boat , her decks already blue with troops , and as she backed out with her whistle screaming , the last objects he saw were the gaunt old man and the broad-shouldered young man side by side on the edge of the landing . Stephen 's chest heaved , and as he walked back to the office with the Judge , he could not trust himself to speak . Back to the silent office where the shelves mocked them . The Judge closed the ground-glass door behind him , and Stephen sat until five o'clock over a book . No , it was not Whittlesey , but Hardee 's `` Tactics . '' He shut it with a slam , and went to Verandah Hall to drill recruits on a dusty floor , -- narrow-chested citizens in suspenders , who knew not the first motion in right about face . For Stephen was an adjutant in the Home Guards -- what was left of them .