twelve o'clock
At last , I was cornered on a note of a thousand dollars , due this house . Besides this note , I had fifteen hundred dollars of borrowed money to pay . At nine o'clock , I started forth , leaving good customers in the store , to whom no one could attend as well as myself . By twelve o'clock , I was able to return my borrowed money , and had the promise of a thousand dollars by half-past one . Until half-past one I waited , when a note came from the friend who had promised the loan , informing me with many expressions of regret , that he had been disappointed , and , therefore , could not accommodate me . Here was a dilemma , indeed . Half-past one o'clock , and a thousand dollars to raise ; but there was no time for regrets .