morning, noon
Now I know that I shall be worth two or three or four millions at thirty , if all goes as I plan . So I cut college and broke for Goldfield . I ran a store and was a secret partner in a saloon that paid better than the store . I was in the game morning , noon , and night ; it beat marching to class to recite Horace and fiddle with the binomial theorem , as it must for every man who counts for something in the world . '' Throughout , Prather 's tone , except for the one moment of anger , had been that of an even recital of facts by one who does not allow himself to consider anything but facts in the judgment of his position . At times he gave Jack covert glances out of the tail of his eye and saw Jack 's face white and drawn and his head lowered . Now Prather became the victim -- so he would have put it , no doubt -- of another outburst of feeling .