4 o'clock
Where now was Stanton 's boasted sense of honor concerning the ethics of playing the game according to directions ? `` Wait a whole hour to see what Molly looked like ? Well he guessed not ! '' Fumbling frantically under his pillow and across the medicine stand he began to search for the missing `` No. 4 o'clock . '' Quite out of breath , at last he discovered it lying on the floor a whole arm 's length away from the bed . Only with a really acute stab of pain did he finally succeed in reaching it . Then with fingers fairly trembling with effort , he opened forth and disclosed a tiny snap-shot photograph of a grim-jawed , scrawny-necked , much be-spectacled elderly dame with a huge gray pompadour .