seven o'clock
He hurried away , pausing at the office long enough to find the man sent by the electric light company , and to set him at work . The arc lamps had been placed , for the most part , where they would best illuminate the annex and the cupola of the elevator , and there was none too much light on the tracks , where the men were stumbling along , hindered rather than helped by the bright light before them . On the wharf it was less dark , for the lights of the steamer were aided by two on the spouting house . Before seven o'clock Bannon had succeeded in getting two more lights up on poles , one on each side of the track . It was just at seven that the timbers suddenly stopped coming in . Bannon looked around impatiently . The six men that had brought in the last stick were disappearing around the corner of the great , shadowy structure that shut off Bannon 's view of the wharf .