three o'clock in the morning
And that is what the Transgeorgian does . Among the stations there is one I would have gladly stopped at if I had had time , Elisabethpol . Before I received the telegram from the _ Twentieth Century _ , I had intended to stay there a week . I had read such attractive descriptions of it , and I had but a five minutes ' stop there , and that between two and three o'clock in the morning ! Instead of a town resplendent in the rays of the sun , I could only obtain a view of a vague mass confusedly discoverable in the pale beams of the moon ! Having ended my careful examination of the time-table , I began to examine my traveling companions . There were four of us , and I need scarcely say that we occupied the four corners of the compartment .