three in the morning
Nobody would know the difference , he argued . Job did not know what he was doing when he found him . He would take the risk ; he might lose the ranch itself if he did not . And , coming home with the first stain of dishonesty on his soul , Andrew Malden astonished Job by ordering him to have Jack and Dave hitched up at three in the morning ; he was going to drive to the plains and the railroad station , then take a train to the city , and would be back in a few days . Ten days later , Jack and Dave and the carriage , all coated with slush and mud , drove up to the door , and Andrew Malden , with a strangely affable smile on his face , clambered stiffly out and introduced Job to Mr. Henry Devonshire , an Englishman traveling for his health and profit . With a gruff greeting the stranger said : `` We ` ad a dirty trip hup . The mud 's no respecter h ` of an H'english gentleman nor h ` an American millionaire , don ` cher know ? ''