four o'clock
` Course Jim swore we 'd all do everything we could , an ' Hart rode off to ` ds his ranch without comin ' nigh the place where his little family was a restin ' so peaceful an ' quiet . `` Say , fellers , that was the pitifullest sight I ever seed , an ' I 've seed some sad work in the days when old Geronimo an ' his murderin ' gang of government pets used to range all over the country . '' 'T was easy enuff to read the whole thing now . She 'd come to the edge of the mesa an ' seen the lights in the station house , for they get up ` bout four o'clock every mornin ' to get breakfast for the section men . Climbin ' down the cliff had used her up , an ' knowin ' she was so clost to help , she had set down on a big flat rock at the bottom to rest a minute before starting to walk the mile from the foot of the mesa to the station . To set down , as cold and tired as she was , meant sleep , an ' to sleep was shore death that night , an ' she went to sleep an ' never woke up no more . `` The little boy was cuddled up ag ` in her under her shawl , with the peacefullest look on his little face you ever see , an ' the little girl was a-leanin ' on her lap an ' a-lookin ' up into her face , with the big tears frozen on her cheeks , an ' so natural that it was hard to believe she was dead .