one in the morning
If he bought a stack of chips at a sleepy roulette-table , inside five minutes a dozen players were around him . He avenged himself , in a small way , on Lucille Arral , by getting up and sauntering out of the Opera House just as she came on to sing her most popular song . In three minutes two-thirds of her audience had vanished after him . At one in the morning he walked along an unusually populous Main Street and took the turning that led up the hill to his cabin . And when he paused on the ascent , he could hear behind him the crunch of moccasins in the snow . For an hour the cabin was in darkness , then he lighted a candle , and , after a delay sufficient for a man to dress in , he and Shorty opened the door and began harnessing the dogs . As the light from the cabin flared out upon them and their work , a soft whistle went up from not far away .