about eleven o'clock
The fact that the G. & M. had been rescued from its poverty and was about to be `` developed '' was made manifest in Blake City by the modern building which the railroad was erecting on the main street . Eventually the division officials were to be installed in office suites of mahogany veneer , with ground glass doors lettered in gold leaf . For the present , as from the beginning , they occupied an upper floor of a freight warehouse . Bannon came in about eleven o'clock , looked briefly about , and seeing that one corner was partitioned off into a private office , he ducked under the hand rail intended to pen up ordinary visitors , and made for it . A telegraph operator just outside the door asked what his business was , but he answered merely that it was with the superintendent , and went in . He expected rather rough work . The superintendent of a railroad , or of a division , has to do with the employees , never with the customers , and his professional manner is not likely to be distinguished by suavity .