about ten o'clock
As the only church in Palomitas was the Mexican mud one about two hundred years old , and as the nearest thing to a parsonage was the Padre 's house that Denver Jones had rented and had his faro-bank in , Hill said he guessed Charley acted sensible in not trying to show the old gent around that part of the town . * * * * * Hill said after he 'd got his supper he thought he 'd come down to the deepo and sort of wait around there ; on the chance he 'd ketch on -- when the old gent come over to the train -- to what Santa Fé and the Hen 'd been putting up on him . Sure enough , he did . Along about ten o'clock a starting-order come down -- the track-gang by that time having the wash-out so near fixed it would be fit by the time the train got there to go across ; and Wood -- he was the agent , Wood was -- sent word over to the Forest Queen to the old gent , who was the only Pullman passenger , he 'd better be coming along . In five minutes or so he showed up . He was n't in the best shape , Hill said , and Santa Fé and the Hen each of 'em was giving him an arm ; though what he seemed to need more 'n arms , Hill said , was legs -- the ones he had , judging from the way he could n't manage 'em , not being in first-class order and working bad . But he did n't make no exhibition of himself , and talked right enough -- only he spoke sort of short and scrappy -- and the three of 'em was as friendly together as friendly could be .