ten o'clock at night
There was plenty of admiration for the pluck and boldness , for the careless indifference with which the raiders risked their lives ; for the romantic side of the dash from Pitsani to the Rand ; but the thing was so palpably impossible , as it was carried out , that there was not a knowing mind in the Islands which would not have echoed Rhodes ' words , `` Jameson has upset the apple-cart . '' Rudyard Byng did not visit Jasmine the next evening at six o'clock . His world was all in chaos , and he had not closed his eyes to sleep since he had left her . At ten o'clock at night , as he had arranged , `` The Partners '' and himself met at his chambers , around which had gathered a crowd of reporters and curious idlers ; and from that time till the grey dawn he and they had sat in conference . He had spent two hours at the Colonial Office after he left Jasmine , and now all night he kneaded the dough of a new policy with his companions in finance and misfortune . There was Wallstein , the fairest , ablest , and richest financier of them all , with a marvellous head for figures and invaluable and commanding at the council-board , by virtue of his clear brain and his power to co-ordinate all the elements of the most confusing financial problems . Others had by luck and persistence made money -- the basis of their fortunes ; but Wallstein had showed them how to save those fortunes and make them grow ; had enabled them to compete successfully with the games of other great financiers in the world 's stock-markets .