about four o'clock
`` And all the way , '' Leslie continued , `` whenever the trail let us walk together , he was telling me a long yarn about the day you and he had spent chasing that elk whose meat we were going after . I listened , Ross , with my mouth opened half the time , and wished a dozen times , if I did once , that I had been with you . `` Well , as the afternoon passed , the storm became heavier , and part of the way we could n't see a dozen feet before us , and finally I think Weston himself was uncertain of our way although he said he was n't . It must have been about four o'clock when we came to the head of the ledge . Weston searched and groped along until he came to a tree where a rope was already tied . '' ` It 's the one I used fer Doc and me , ' '' he explained and slung it over the cliff . `` He had been hauling the sled along , while all I had to carry was the gun and ammunition .