about
three o'clock in the afternoon
`` I 've got one now , and if I make a failure of this thing , I am going to Texas . When you see me again I 'll have the nugget . Good-by . '' We saw no Indians , although we kept a bright lookout for them , and about three o'clock in the afternoon arrived at the springs , for I do not know what else to call them . We had had no dinner , intending to leave it until we got to our camping place , and while Tom and I unsaddled and staked out the horses , Elam strolled away with his rifle on his shoulder to look up the springs . He was gone fully an hour , and when he came back he set his rifle down and never said a word . I knew that something was the matter , but I thought I would wait until he got ready to tell it .