two o'clock in the afternoon
From remarks in this yer paper , it would appear that she tried it on at Marysville last week , and broke her neck . '' He always thought it must have been fate . Certainly nothing could have been more inconsistent with his habits than to have been in the Plaza at seven o'clock of that midsummer morning . The sight of his colorless face in Sacramento was rare at that season , and , indeed , at any season , anywhere publicly , before two o'clock in the afternoon . Looking back upon it in after-years in the light of a chanceful life , he determined , with the characteristic philosophy of his profession , that it must have been fate . Yet it is my duty , as a strict chronicler of facts , to state that Mr. Oakhurst 's presence there that morning was due to a very simple cause . At exactly half-past six , the bank being then a winner to the amount of twenty thousand dollars , he had risen from the faro-table , relinquished his seat to an accomplished assistant , and withdrawn quietly , without attracting a glance from the silent , anxious faces bowed over the table .