two o'clock P.M.
`` We must have more money , '' the leaders assert . Two millions of dollars is set aside for use in St. Louis alone . Against such odds can the Independence party win ? It is two o'clock P.M. , on October twelfth . In sixty minutes the New York Stock ` Change will close . The day has been exceedingly quiet ; brokers are standing in groups discussing the whys and wherefores of this and that stock scheme ; all are of little consequence . Indeed , there has been nothing done on the floor since the abrupt departure of James Golding , the Head of the Banking Syndicate for Europe , three weeks before this pleasant twelfth day of October .