eleven o'clock
It was nearly ten o'clock when Glover , supperless , reached the car with his dispositions made for the night . While he talked with the men , Clem , the star cook of the Brock family , under special orders grilled a big porterhouse steak and presently asked him back to the dining-table , where , behind the shaded candles , Gertrude waited . They sat down opposite each other ; but not until Glover saw there were two plates instead of one , and learned that Gertrude had eaten no dinner because she was waiting for him , did he mutter something about all that an American girl is capable of in the way of making a man grateful and happy . There was nothing to hurry them back to the other end of the car , and they did not rejoin Mr. Brock and Bucks , who were smoking forward , until eleven o'clock . Callahan came in afterward , and sitting together Mr. Brock and Gertrude listened while the three railroad men planned the campaign for the next day . Parting late , Glover said good-night and left with Callahan to inspect the rotary . The fearful punishment of the day 's work on the knives had shown itself , and since dark , relays of mechanics from the Sleepy Cat shops had been busy with the cutting gear , and the companion plough had already been ordered in from the eighth district .