one o'clock
But of one thing he was convinced ; in exchange for whatever winning card he held Shan Tung had offered him his life . Tomorrow he would expect an answer . That tomorrow had already dawned . It was one o'clock when Keith again looked at his watch . Twenty hours ago he had cooked his last camp-fire breakfast . It was only eighteen hours ago that he had filled himself with the smell of Andy Duggan 's bacon , and still more recently that he had sat in the little barber shop on the corner wondering what his fate would be when he faced McDowell . It struck him as incongruous and impossible that only fifteen hours had passed since then .