five o'clock
These things happen : and then the question comes , -- alike in high and low places , -- alike with money and without it , -- what the women and the girls are to do ? Rodney Sherrett took his sister home ; drove three miles round and brought Mrs. Argenter 's sister to her from River Point , and then turned toward Dorbury Upper Village and the telegraph office . But he met Sim Atwill on the way , received the telegram from him , and hurried back . It was the dispatch of the hour later , and this was it : -- `` Mr. Argenter died at five o'clock . His remains will be sent home to-morrow , carefully attended . `` PHILIP BURKMAYER . '' There were paragraphs in the papers ; there were resolutions at meetings of the Board of Trade , and of the Directors of the Trimountain Bank ; there was a funeral from the `` late residence , '' largely attended ; there were letters and calls of condolence ; there was making of crape and bombazine and silk into `` mourning ; '' there were friends and neighbors asking each other , after mention of the sad suddenness , `` how it would be ; '' `` how much he had left ; '' `` was there a will ? ''