six o'clock
He would probably have been less amused if he had known that the man was none other than State Senator `` Sporty '' Jones . It does not pay to enrage any man wantonly , and especially not a man who makes it his main principle in life to get even . And as any of his circumspect associates could inform you , Senator Sporty Jones was just such a man . It was nearing six o'clock when No. 14 slowed down in the southern outskirts of Tillman City . The army , though depleted , was jubilant , and more than made up in _ esprit du corps _ what it had lost in numbers . The raid had so far been completely successful : all the stations had been seized , and the south-bound trains they had met had been held up and placed in charge of C. & S.C. employees . There had been no resistance worth mentioning , and they had prevented any warning of their coming from going up the line ahead of them .