about two o'clock
gasped Roscoe . `` I believe somebody 's dead ! '' And he started for the New House at a run . Sheridan had decided to conclude his day 's work early that afternoon , and at about two o'clock he left his office with a man of affairs from foreign parts , who had traveled far for a business conference with Sheridan and his colleagues . Herr Favre , in spite of his French name , was a gentleman of Bavaria . It was his first visit to our country , and Sheridan took pleasure in showing him the sights of the country 's finest city . They got into an open car at the main entrance of the Sheridan Building , and were driven first , slowly and momentously , through the wholesale district and the retail district ; then more rapidly they inspected the packing-houses and the stock-yards ; then skirmished over the `` park system '' and `` boulevards '' ; and after that whizzed through the `` residence section '' on their way to the factories and foundries .