three o'clock in the afternoon
`` Varnum _ vs _ . Western Pacific comes up Friday of this week , and they are going to press for trial this time , and no mistake , '' wrote the local representative . `` Hawk has been chasing around getting affidavits ; for what purpose I do n't know , though Lesher tells me that one of them was sworn by Houligan , the sub-contractor who tried to fight the engineer 's estimates on the Jump Creek work . `` Also , there is a story going the rounds that the suit is to be made a blind for bigger game , though I guess this is all gossip , based on the fact that Mr. Semple Falkland 's private car stopped over here two weeks ago , from three o'clock in the afternoon till midnight of the same day . Jason , of the _ Clarion _ , interviewed the New Yorker , and Falkland told him he had stopped over to look up the securities on a mortgage held by one of his New York clients . '' Kent read this unofficial letter thoughtfully , and later on took it in to the general manager . `` Just to show you the kind of jackal we have to deal with in the smaller towns , '' he said , by way of explanation .