6:45
`` I saw a platinum photograph of myself sleeping in that third-class hotel . I kept on talking athletics , however , and the chairman was good enough to ask me to dine with him . After dinner we played billiards and he beat me . At 6:45 we adjourned to his room . He and his committee excused themselves to hold their meeting in a room on the floor below . I was smoking one of the chairman 's cigars , and was congratulating myself that things looked encouraging . The cigar was a good one , too .