five o'clock
Now I know more than ever . She was all woman ! '' And to this , Joan , putting out her hand to bid them good-by , assented . The night shots had been fired at five o'clock -- the time usually selected by mines working two shifts -- supper had been eaten , and the partners were sitting in front of their quarters when Bill again referred to Mrs. Meredith . High up on the hill , where the new landmark had been , erected , at the foot of the cross , the day shift of the Croix d'Or was busied here and there in clearing away the ground around the grave of the engineer , some of the men on hands and knees casting aside small bowlders , others trimming a clearing in the surrounding brush , and still others painfully building a low wall of rock . `` The hard work of findin ' out where The Lily is , '' said Bill softly , `` is because she covered her trail . Nobody knows where she went .