About 10 o'clock
He sipped his coffee and puffed his cigarette with a retrospective air , inhaling the smoke at every draught , or blowing it forth in little rings which he watched as they circled off into space . I waited in silence . `` Well , '' he continued , `` it was nothing but ` gallop on after the torch . ' About 10 o'clock I blew into a joint that I had n't been to -- a gambling house . There was a gang around the faro-bank , and I shoved in to see what was going on . I hope I may drop if Kendall was n't sitting there , howling , paralyzed full . He had a lot of chips in front of him , playin ' 'em like a drunken sailor .