three o'clock
Trembling with suppressed fury , he did as he was told , but on the ten-mile ride to the Bar T ranch said nothing , and only revolved in his mind one question : How did Stelton know he had been with the rustlers before Julie had said anything about them ? At three o'clock the next afternoon Beef Bissell felt better than he had for some time , this condition being a result of his vindictive triumph over Bud Larkin , and the fact that that young man was in his hands . He felt that the back of the sheep business had been broken as far as his range and his county were concerned . I have put the opening of this chapter at three o'clock , because that was the hour at which life began to be manifest at the Bar T ranch after the stirring events of the night before . Bud Larkin himself , worn out with his nights and days of vigil , had gone to sleep on his bed almost in the act of taking his boots off . Vague ideas of escape had coursed through his mind only to be overtaken and killed by the slumber he had evaded for so long . His window faced southwest , and when he awoke it was to find the dazzling gold of the sun warming his face .