About four o'clock in the afternoon
I took the letter over to the Mountain Valley road and watched for a messenger . By and by a colored equestrian came along on horseback , riding toward Edenville . I gave him a dollar to take the letter to the railroad offices ; and then I went back to camp . About four o'clock in the afternoon , Caligula , who was acting as lookout , calls to me : `` I have to report a white shirt signalling on the starboard bow , sir . '' I went down the mountain and brought back a fat , red man in an alpaca coat and no collar . `` Gentlemen , '' says Colonel Rockingham , `` allow me to introduce my brother , Captain Duval C. Rockingham , vice-president of the Sunrise & Edenville Tap Railroad . '' `` Otherwise the King of Morocco , '' says I. `` I reckon you do n't mind my counting the ransom , just as a business formality . ''