Four o'clock
It is well to mention here that , upon the tongues of the scurrile , `` Something , '' as a praise-name and over-name for Mr. Dewing , suffered a sea change to `` Surething '' -- Surething Dewing ; just as the Admiral Dewey Hotel was less favorably known as `` Stagger Inn . '' Mr. Dewing 's eye rested dreamily upon the picture , much praised of connoisseurs , framed by his window -- the sharp encircling contours of Cobre Mountain ; the wedge of tawny desert beyond Farewell Gap . Rousing himself from such contemplation , he broke a silence , sour and unduly prolonged . `` Four o'clock , and all 's ill ! Johnson is not the man to be cheated out of a fortune without putting up a fight . Young Mitchell himself is neither fool nor weakling . He can shoot , too .