about two o'clock
`` You do n't understand , Frank , '' said Talbot impatiently . `` Men of our stamp do n't do those things . '' `` Oh ! '' said I. `` This , '' said Johnny , `` made it about two o'clock , as I figure your story . Did you then take a needed rest ? '' `` Quarter of two , '' corrected Talbot , `` I was going back to the hotel , when I passed that brick building -- you know , on Montgomery Street . I remembered then that lawyer and his two hundred and fifty dollars for a hole in the ground .