six o'clock
Particularly the last clause . '' In her purse , which had contained one hundred and ten dollars , there now reposed in solitary state a twenty-dollar bill . Day came again , in the natural sequence of events . Matt , the cook , roused all the camp at six o'clock with a tremendous banging on a piece of boiler plate hung by a wire . Long before that Stella heard her brother astir . She wondered sleepily at his sprightliness , for as she remembered him at home he had been a confirmed lie-abed . She herself responded none too quickly to the breakfast gong , as a result of which slowness the crew had filed away to the day 's work , her brother striding in the lead , when she entered the mess-house .