eight o'clock
But morning found him awake long before the rest of the house was stirring . Downtown he hurried , to eat a hasty breakfast in the all-night restaurant , then to start on a search for men . The first workers on the street that morning found Fairchild offering them six dollars a day . And by eight o'clock , ten of them were at work in the drift of the Blue Poppy mine , working against time that they might repair the damage which had been caused by the cave-in . It was not an easy task . That day and the next and the next after that , they labored . Then Fairchild glanced at the progress that was being made and sought out the pseudo-foreman .