about four o'clock
His moon face was inanimate , and vagrant emotions from his heart flicked across his features in quivers of anguish . His thin hair was tousled and his clothes were soiled and disheveled . `` I thought you ought to know , Laura -- at once , '' he said , after she had closed the white door behind her and sat numb and dumb before him . `` Nate and Henry and I got there about four o'clock . Well , there they were -- by the big elm tree -- on the golf course . His father was there and he told me coming back that when they wanted Grant to do anything -- they would string up Amos -- poor old Amos ! They made Grant stoop over and kiss the flag , while they kicked him ; and they made him pull that machine gun around the lake .