nearly six o'clock
She locked all her possessions away in her trunk -- all but her money ; that she put in her stockings -- seventy-five dollars well down in the right leg , the rest of the bills well down in the left leg ; the two dollars or so in change was all she intrusted to the pocketbook she carried . She cast a coquettish glance down at her charmingly arrayed feet -- a harmless glance of coquetry that will be condemned by those whose physical vanity happens to center elsewhere . After this glance she dropped her skirts -- and was ready . By this time dusk had fallen , and it was nearly six o'clock . As she came out of the house she glanced toward the west -- the instinctive gesture of people who live in rainy climates . Her face brightened ; she saw an omen in the long broad streak of reddened evening sky . SHE went down to Fourth Street , along it to Race , to the _ Commercial _ building .