1 A.M.
Want to wait ? '' `` Long as I 've started this thing , I might as well stay with it , '' says I. Yep , I waits for the Colonel . Some enthusiastic describer , Colonel Brassle is , when he gets going . It was near 1 A.M. when I finally tears myself away ; but I 'm loaded up with enough facts about Creighton to fill a book . And few of 'em was what you might call complimentary to Clyde . For one thing , his dear Alicia had n't found him as inspirin ' as he had her . Anyway , she 'd complained a lot about his hang-over disposition , and finally quit him for good five or six years before she passed on .