four o'clock
Harrison 's departure left Brewster in sore straits . It forced him to settle down to the actual management of his own affairs . He was not indolent , but this was not the kind of work he cared to encourage . The private accounts he had kept revealed some appalling facts when he went over them carefully one morning at four o'clock , after an all-night session with the ledger . With infinite pains he had managed to rise to something over $ 450,000 in six months . But to his original million it had been necessary to add $ 58,550 which he had realized from Lumber and Fuel and some of his other `` unfortunate '' operations . At least $ 40,000 would come to him ultimately through the sale of furniture and other belongings , and then there would be something like $ 20,000 interest to consider .