midnight
Fort Worth was a frontier town at the time , bustling and alert with live-stock interests ; but we were anxious to get home , and promptly boarded a train for the south . After entering the train , our _ segundo _ gave each of the vaqueros and myself some spending money , the greater portion of which went to the `` butcher '' for fruits . He was an enterprising fellow and took a marked interest in our comfort and welfare . But on nearing San Antonio after midnight , he attempted to sell us our choice of three books , between the leaves of one of which he had placed a five-dollar bill and in another a ten , and offered us our choice for two dollars , and June Deweese became suddenly interested . Coming over to where we were sitting , he knocked the books on the floor , kicked them under a seat , and threatened to bend a gun over the butcher 's head unless he made himself very scarce . Then reminding us that `` there were tricks in all trades but ours , '' he kept an eye over us until we reached the city . We were delayed another day in San Antonio , settling with the commission firm and banking the money .