six o'clock
Billy 's eyes glistened -- he was yearning for just that situation . `` But if Potts does move , '' added Solon , `` not a word about the second lady . We wo n't take a mean advantage , even of Potts . '' At six o'clock that evening , the following facts became known : that Colonel Potts had obtained a quart of whiskey from Barney Skeyhan ; that he had borrowed twenty dollars from the same trustful tradesman ; that , his cane in one hand and his oilcloth valise in the other , he had walked down Main Street late in the afternoon and boarded the five twenty-eight freight going West , ostensibly on a business trip into the next county . Not until the next morning was it known that Potts had left us forever . This came from `` Big Joe '' Kestril . The two had met at the depot and drunk fraternally from the bottle of Potts , discussing the thing frankly , meanwhile .