six o'clock
when will a man get $ 30,000 working for $ 4 a day on the Comstock ? '' `` It is a close , hard game , '' said Browning . Then there was silence , the candle burned out , and in a moment more both miners were asleep . The men awoke early , and , as Sedgwick had predicted , by six o'clock , the superintendent of the mine came down and went to the end of the drift . On his return to the lower station of the shaft , Sedgwick approached him , and holding out the bit of lagging , said in a low voice : `` Mr. Mackay , there are a few words written on that . Will you not kindly carry them to the surface and read them ? '' Mr. Mackay took it and put it in the pocket of the gray shirt which he always wore in the mine , saying jokingly : `` Tobacco needed on your watch ? ''