four o'clock
interrupted his wife , with ill-disguised intolerance . `` Everybody knows the hill was n't worth that for prospectin ' ; and it was abandoned when we came here . It 's your property and you 've paid for it . Are you goin ' to wait to advertise for the owner , Alvin Mulrady , or are you going to Sacramento at four o'clock to-day ? '' Mulrady started . He had never seriously believed in the possibility of a previous discovery ; but his conscientious nature had prompted him to give it a fair consideration . She was probably right .