eight o'clock
`` No , I 'll keep moving , '' replied Jack . `` I have thought of some supply men who know me ; our account is considerable ; they would lend it to Mr. MacFarlane , but that 's not the way I want it . I 'll see them and get back as soon as I can -- perhaps in a couple of hours . '' `` Then make it eight o'clock , so as to be sure . I have thought of something else . Ten thousand dollars , '' he kept muttering to himself -- `` ten thousand dollars '' -- as he put on his hat and moved to the door . There he stopped and faced about -- his bushy brows tightening as a new difficulty confronted him .