five in the afternoon
If you 've packed yer bed along , stay with me to-night . There 's the floor , '' hospitably , `` and I guess I can rustle grub enough fer both . Anyhow , there 's two eatin ' - houses where you could fill up . '' At five in the afternoon the stage crawled through the dusk over a yielding bridge built of hemlock saplings creaking under their coating of ice and snow , and stopped in front of a shack out of whose open door glinted a welcome light . Another light appeared high up on the side of the mountain . `` Hold up there , Bill , '' was the shout which had brought the stage to a standstill . `` Got a cold , hungry young chap inside there , name of Grant ?