seven o'clock in the morning
He had been attending a dinner-dance at the home of a friend , and Percy Harrigan had got him on the telephone at half past eleven o'clock at night . Percy had had a message from Cartwright , to the effect that Hal was leading a riot in North Valley ; Percy had painted the situation in such lurid colours that Edward had made a dash and caught the midnight train , wearing his evening clothes , and without so much as a tooth-brush with him ! Hal could hardly keep from bursting out laughing . His brother , his punctilious and dignified brother , alighting from a sleeping-car at seven o'clock in the morning , wearing a dress suit and a silk hat ! And here he was , Edward Warner Junior , the fastidious , who never paid less than a hundred and fifty dollars for a suit of clothes , clad in a `` hand-me-down '' for which he had expended twelve dollars and forty-eight cents in a `` Jew-store '' in a coal-town ! But Edward would not stop for a single smile ; his every faculty was absorbed in the task he had before him , to get his brother out of this predicament , so dangerous and so humiliating . Hal had come to a town owned by Edward 's business friends , and had proceeded to meddle in their affairs , to stir up their labouring people and imperil their property .