six o'clock in the afternoon
It was a sad blow to them to think that the one great enterprise they had recently engineered -- a foil to some of the immense affairs which had recently had their genesis in New York and elsewhere -- should have come to so untimely an end . Chicago finance really should not be put to shame in this fashion if it could be avoided . So that when Mr. Schryhart arrived , quite warm and disturbed , and related in detail what he had just learned , his friends listened to him with eager and wary ears . It was now between five and six o'clock in the afternoon and still blazing outside , though the walls of the buildings on the opposite side of the street were a cool gray , picked out with pools of black shadow . A newsboy 's strident voice was heard here and there calling an extra , mingled with the sound of homing feet and street-cars -- Cowperwood 's street-cars . `` I 'll tell you what it is , '' said Schryhart , finally . `` It seems to me we have stood just about enough of this man 's beggarly interference .