eleven
o'clock
He knew , as every one did in that part of the country , the legend of Vanamee and Angele , the romance of the Mission garden , the mystery of the Other , Vanamee 's flight to the deserts of the southwest , his periodic returns , his strange , reticent , solitary character , but , like many another of the country people , he accounted for Vanamee by a short and easy method . No doubt , the fellow 's wits were turned . That was the long and short of it . The ex-engineer reached the Post Office in Bonneville towards eleven o'clock , but he did not at once present his notice of the arrival of his consignment at Ruggles 's office . It entertained him to indulge in an hour 's lounging about the streets . It was seldom he got into town , and when he did he permitted himself the luxury of enjoying his evident popularity . He met friends everywhere , in the Post Office , in the drug store , in the barber shop and around the court-house .