seven in the
evening
Bagi dâk-bungalow is open to all the winds and is bitterly cold . Few people go to Bagi . Perhaps that was the reason why Dumoise went there . He halted at seven in the evening , and his bearer went down the hillside to the village to engage coolies for the next day 's march . The sun had set , and the night-winds were beginning to croon among the rocks . Dumoise leaned on the railing of the veranda , waiting for his bearer to return . The man came back almost immediately after he had disappeared , and at such a rate that Dumoise fancied he must have crossed a bear .