four o'clock
`` Roopy , old man , I s ` pose ye 've got yer duds all ready in yer pack , eh ? '' A flush of pleasure passed over the boy 's handsome face . He cast , however , a hurried look down on the all-pervading Johnny . `` 'Cause ye see we kalkilate to take the down stage to Sacramento at four o'clock , '' continued Uncle Ben , enjoying Rupert 's half sceptical surprise . `` Ye enter into office , so to speak , with me at that hour , when the sellery , seventy-five dollars a month and board , ez private and confidential clerk , begins -- eh ? '' Rupert 's dimples deepened in charming , almost feminine , embarrassment . `` But dad -- ? ''