afternoon about four o'clock
Suspense is hard on an old man , sir . '' `` On young men , too . Go on . '' `` Well , I 'll drop off the train to-morrow afternoon about four o'clock at a lonely little flag-station called Sespe . After the train leaves Sespe , it runs south-west for almost twenty miles to the coast , and turns south to El Toro . Nearly everybody enters the San Gregorio from El Toro , but , via the short-cut trail from Sespe , I can hike it home in three hours and arrive absolutely unannounced and unheralded . `` Now , as I pop up over the mile-high ridge back of Sespe , I 'll be looking down on the San Gregorio while the last of the sunlight still lingers there .