three in the afternoon
Presently the sun rose in glory and sent its burning level rays to cast a shadow several rods long of an enraged American beating frantically with clenched fists upon the door of an unresponsive railway station . He hammered until he was a-weary , then deputised his task to Doggott , who resourcefully found him a stone of size and proceeded to make dents in the door . This method elicited the Eurasian . He came out , listened attentively to abuse and languidly to their demands for a tonga to bear them to Kuttarpur , and observed that the mail tonga left once a day -- at three in the afternoon . Doggott caught him as he was on the point of returning to his interrupted repose and called his attention to the unwisdom of his ways . Apparently convinced , this ticket-agent announced his intention of endeavouring to find a tonga for the sahib . Besides , he was not unwilling to acquire rupees .