about five o'clock
Needless to say , I had not confided to him the part I had played in originating House Bill No. 709 , now a law of the state . But as the train rolled on through the sunny winter landscape a sense of well-being , of importance and power began to steal through me . I was victoriously bearing home my first scalp , -- one which was by no means to be despised ... . It was not until we reached Rossiter , about five o'clock , that I was able to get the evening newspapers . Such was the perfection of the organization of which I might now call myself an integral part that the `` best '' publications contained only the barest mention , -- and that in the legislative news , -- of the signing of the bill . I read with complacency and even with amusement the flaring headlines I had anticipated in Mr. Lawler 's ` Pilot . ' `` The Governor Signs It ! ''