two o'clock in the morning
I had to get it across to him there was a lot of dead wood in this plant , I had to wake him up to the fact that the twentieth century was here . He had to be shown -- he was from Boston , you know -- '' Ditmar laughed -- `` but he was all wool and a yard wide , and he liked me and trusted me . `` That was in nineteen hundred . I can remember the interview as well as if it had happened last night -- we sat up until two o'clock in the morning in that library of his with the marble busts and the leather-bound books and the double windows looking out over the Charles , where the wind was blowing a gale . And at last he said , ` All right , Claude , go ahead . I 'll put you in as agent , and stand behind you . ' And by thunder , he did stand behind me .