about five o'clock
Was Jabez failin ' -- was he ? Well , not so you could notice it ! Course he was n't quite so physically able as once ; but I never saw him put up a toppier mental exhibition than he did right then . Barbie did n't have a word to say that afternoon until about five o'clock . Then she suddenly looked up from some reports we was goin ' over , an ' sez , `` Happy , if you had gone away from me like Dick did , what would be the only thing what would have kept you from comin ' back to me ? '' `` By God , nothin ' but death ! '' sez I , without stoppin ' to think .