ten o'clock
Tom helped himself from the box on the table . `` You have it to do , Mr. Dracott . On the day you have hammered Chiawassee Limited down to a dead proposition , you can have my pipe patents at the figure named . If you will meet me at the office of Hanchett , Goodloe and Tryson to-morrow morning at ten o'clock , we will put it in writing . Good night . '' Hoping always for the best , after the manner prescribed for optimistic gentlemen who successfully exploit their fellows , Mr. Duxbury Farley did not deem it necessary to confide fully in his son when the representative of American Aqueduct broke off negotiations abruptly and went back to New York . It is a sad state of affairs , reached by respectably villainous fathers the world over , when the son demonstrates the mathematical law of progression by becoming a villain without regard for the respectabilities .