ten o'clock
And so he had come on the job this evening , at a time when he supposed Bannon safe in bed , and delivered his ultimatum . Not that he had any hope of carrying the strike through without some sort of a collision with the boss , but he well knew that an encounter after the strike had gathered momentum would be easier than one before . Bannon might be able to outwit an individual , even Grady himself , but he would find it hard to make headway against an angry mob . And now Grady was pacing stiffly about the Belt Line yards , while the minute hand of his watch crept around toward ten o'clock . Even if Bannon should be called within the hour , a few fiery words to those sweating gangs on the distributing floor should carry the day . But Grady did not think that this would be necessary . He was still in the mistake of supposing that Peterson and the boss were at cuts , and he had arrived , by a sort of reasoning that seemed the keenest strategy , at the conclusion that Peterson would take the opportunity to settle the matter himself .