about five o'clock in the afternoon
`` No , '' he replied suavely . `` Nothing of the sort . It was the simplest thing in the world . It was along about five o'clock in the afternoon when with my three guides and my valet I drove up the winding roadway of Great Sulphur Mountain on my way to the Blue Mountain House where I purposed to put up for a few days . I had one of those big mountain wagons with a covered top to it such as the pioneers used on the American plains , with six fine horses to the fore . I held the reins myself , since we were in the midst of a terrific thunderstorm and I felt safer when I did my own driving . All the flaps of the leathern cover were let down at the sides and at the back , and were securely fastened .