eleven o'clock
But they would as soon use his capital to develop it as anybody else 's , and if he could put in a certain sum for this purpose , they would go in with him . He should run the works at Lapham and manage the business in Boston , and they would run the works at Kanawha Falls and manage the business in New York . The two brothers with whom Lapham talked named their figure , subject to the approval of another brother at Kanawha Falls , to whom they would write , and who would telegraph his answer , so that Lapham could have it inside of three days . But they felt perfectly sure that he would approve ; and Lapham started back on the eleven o'clock train with an elation that gradually left him as he drew near Boston , where the difficulties of raising this sum were to be over come . It seemed to him , then , that those fellows had put it up on him pretty steep , but he owned to himself that they had a sure thing , and that they were right in believing they could raise the same sum elsewhere ; it would take all OF it , he admitted , to make their paint pay on the scale they had the right to expect . At their age , he would not have done differently ; but when he emerged , old , sore , and sleep-broken , from the sleeping-car in the Albany depot at Boston , he wished with a pathetic self-pity that they knew how a man felt at his age . A year ago , six months ago , he would have laughed at the notion that it would be hard to raise the money .