About four in the afternoon
I 'm going to love your country all I can for this . ' '' ` Negotiations , ' says old Doc , ` will be opened between the two governments at once . You will know later to-day if they are successful . ' `` About four in the afternoon a soldier in red trousers brings a paper round to the jail , and they unlocks the door and I walks out . The guard at the door bows and I bows , and I steps into the grass and wades around to Doc Millikin 's shack . `` Doc was sitting in his hammock playing ` Dixie , ' soft and low and out of tune , on his flute . I interrupted him at ` Look away !