One o'clock
It was at once decided to head off the broker , Fitz keeping an eye on his office every half hour in the hope that he might turn up , and I completing the arrangements for the colonel 's bail so as to forestall the possibility of his remaining in custody overnight . Fitz spent the day in efforts to lay hands on Klutchem in order to prevent the law performing the same service for the colonel . My own arrangements were more easily completed , a friend properly possessed of sufficient real estate to make good his bond being in readiness for any emergency . One o'clock came , then three , then five ; the colonelall the time keeping to the seclusion of his private office , Fitz watching for Klutchem , and I waiting in the larger office for the arrival of one of those clean-shaven , thick-set young men , in a Derby hat and sack-coat , the unexpected pair of handcuffs in his outside pocket . The morning of the second day the situation remained still unchanged ; Fitz had been unable to find Klutchem either at his office or at his lodgings , the colonel was still without any reply from his antagonist , and no young man answering to my fears had put in any appearance whatever . The only new features were a telegram from Tom Yancey to the effect that he and Judge Kerfoot would arrive about noon , and another from the judge himself begging a postponement until they could reach the field . Fitz read both dispatches in a corner by himself , with a face expressive of the effect these combined troubles were making upon his otherwise happy countenance .