twelve o'clock
This Travers , this one unscrupulous fortune-hunter , heedless of everything save his own advancement , had branded them all . He had undone , with the help of a heedless woman , the work of generations of heroic , honest labor . Truly the chain of individual responsibility is a long one ! Nicholson had left Colonel Carmichael 's bungalow at twelve o'clock . The increasing crowd and Stafford 's prolonged absence had urged him to instant and independent action . In the best of cases , he had little faith in the brother-officer 's secret mission . Stafford was not the man to exert any influence over the native mind .