four in the morning
`` That fellow Burrage has got the right stuff in him , he 'll make good , '' they said among themselves . The younger ones , sons of rich fathers who had squeezed them into places in the big firm , regarded his efforts with indulgent surprise . They liked him , called him `` Old Mark , '' and were a little patronizing in their friendliness : `` He was just the sort who 'd be a grind . Those ranch chaps who had to get up at four in the morning and feed the ` horgs ' were the devil to work when they came down to the city . Even law was a cinch after the ` horgs . ' '' Sometimes at night -- his endeavor relaxed for a pondering moment -- he studied the future . The outlook might have daunted a less resolute spirit .