six o'clock
Only the surface mind of him hated , and had ambitions , dreamed revenge . Underneath that surface mind was a sore that ate like a cancer , and that sore was his desertion by Lily Cardew . For once in his life he suffered , who had always inflicted pain . At six o'clock Doyle had called him on the telephone and told him that Woslosky was dead , but the death of the Pole had been discounted in advance , and already his place had been filled by a Russian agent , who had taken the first syllable of his name and called himself Ross . Louis Akers heard the news apathetically , and went back to his chair again . By eight o'clock he knew that he had lost the election , but that , too , seemed relatively unimportant . He was not thinking coherently , but certain vague ideas floated through his mind .