ten o'clock
There will be enough in the after history of Wilmer and his young wife , to awaken the reader 's keenest sympathies , without unveiling the particular incidents of this period . Suffice it , then , to say , -- that the first night 's experience at the gambling-table was not enough to satisfy Wilmer , that it was neither the right way , nor the most successful way of elevating himself in the world . So anxious did he feel on account of Constance , that be borrowed money of his false friend Arnold , on the evening of the very next day , and after drinking , freely , to nerve himself up , sought again the gambling-table . At ten o'clock , he left , the winner by fifty dollars . He left thus early on account of his wife , who would be , he knew , anxiously looking for his return . This encouraged him to go on , and he did go on . But he could never feel sanguine of success , or be able to still the troubled whispers within , until he had drunken freely .