two in the afternoon
` Two n't hurt me . Du n no but what it 's good for me . '' `` Bedad , it 's betther for ye nor yer own gruntin ' , '' added the irrepressible Irishman . By two in the afternoon they had made perhaps fifteen miles , and reached the foot of the mountain which they proposed to skirt . As Glover was now fagged out , Thurstane decided to halt for the night and try deer-stalking . A muddy water-hole , surrounded by thickets of willows , indicated their camping ground . The sick man was _ cached _ in the dense foliage ; his canteen was filled for him and placed by his side ; there could be no other nursing .