six o'clock in the afternoon
`` I think that you will find yourself there , madam , before many months have passed over your head . There are severe laws against forgery , perjury and conspiracy , '' answered Alden Lytton . Outside of the office the three gentlemen consulted their watches . It was now six o'clock in the afternoon . Then they looked about them . They had come to Wendover in the deputy-sheriff 's carriage . That had gone .