four o'clock
All this took time , vastly more time than it takes in the telling . The logs were ponderous masses . They had to be maneuvered sometimes between stumps and standing timber , jerked this way and that to bring them into the clear . By four o'clock Benton and his rigging-slinger had just finished bunting their second batch of logs down the chute . Stella watched these Titanic labors with a growing interest and a dawning vision of why these men walked the earth with that reckless swing of their shoulders . For they were palpably masters in their environment . They strove with woodsy giants and laid them low .