eleven o'clock
McCloud had left the bridge camp on the river for Medicine Bend on the Saturday that Marion Sinclair -- whose husband had finally told her he would give her one more chance to think it over -- returned with Dicksie safely from their trip to the Frenchman ranch . Whispering Smith , who had been with Bucks and Morris Blood , got back to town the same day . The president and general manager were at the Wickiup during the afternoon , and left for the East at nine o'clock in the evening , when their car was attached to an east-bound passenger train . McCloud took supper afterward with Whispering Smith at a Front Street chop-house , and the two men separated at eleven o'clock . It was three hours later when McCloud tapped on the door of Smith 's room , and in a moment opened it . `` Awake , Gordon ? '' `` Sure : come in .