seven o'clock
`` Then you 'd better find another jackass , '' she replied quietly . I was glad that I had not asked for a clean towel . From the commercial travellers I now separated myself , and wandered alone in pleasurable aimlessness . It was seven o'clock . Medicine Bow stood voiceless and unpeopled . The cow-boys had melted away . The inhabitants were indoors , pursuing the business or the idleness of the forenoon .