five o'clock
`` Oh , we 've made out fairly well . '' `` Your spirit is admirable , but I ca n't say as much for your judgment in the matter , '' he returned , good-naturedly . `` Still , we all go hunting trouble in our own individual fashion ; if not in one way , why , then in another . '' It was after five o'clock when Lee Bryant and Dave , once more leading the loaded horse , took their departure and followed Sarita Creek down to the mesa trail . When they had struck into the latter and travelled it for half a mile , they saw a long distance ahead someone walking toward them , also leading a horse . In a land where men saddle a mount to ride a few hundred yards , the singular coincidence excited their curiosity . They wondered why the fellow walked , as doubtless he was wondering the same thing of them .