Eight o'clock
It was a case of drive , drive , drive , and he alone could do the driving . And this went on day after day , while the whole business world rocked around him and house after house crashed to the ground . `` It 's all right , old man , '' he told Hegan every morning ; and it was the same cheerful word that he passed out all day long , except at such times when he was in the thick of fighting to have his will with persons and things . Eight o'clock saw him at his desk each morning . By ten o'clock , it was into the machine and away for a round of the banks . And usually in the machine with him was the ten thousand and more dollars that had been earned by his ferries and railways the day before . This was for the weakest spot in the financial dike .