Four o'clock
Here , again , the matter of a subsequent financial reward , to be paid by the party of the first part , meaning Jeff , to the party of the second part , meaning Cump , following the satisfactory outcome of sundry developments , was arranged . Would there were space to tell how cunningly , how craftily Jeff , in the subtleties marking this interview , played upon three chords in the other 's being -- the chord of vengeful envy , the chord of malice , the chord of avarice . There is not space . Four o'clock found the plotter entering the parlor of what once had been the establishment of T. Marshall , undertaker , now the Elite Colored Funeral Home , Marshall & Kivil , proprietors . These transformations had dated from the time Percy C. Kivil -LRB- Tuskegee ' 18 -RRB- entered the firm . Here was no plain undertaker . Here was an expert and a graduate mortician , with diploma to prove it ; also one gifted of the pen .