eleven o'clock
He awoke fresh , and even more eager than the night before to undertake his venture . There remained still a few men to be seen . He transacted his business with a brilliant dispatch and swift decision that startled them . He disposed of all his office furniture , his books , destroyed all his letters , made a will leaving instructions for the disposal of his body , and concluded every other detail of his affairs before eleven o'clock . When he left his office to go back to his room , he had in his pocket every cent he possessed in the world in crisp new bank notes . It amounted to twenty-eight hundred and forty-seven dollars . Not much to scatter over a long life , -- not much as capital .