four o'clock
Those who failed to make application between the hours named would not be taken back on any terms . From two to five in the afternoon Wahaska , figuratively speaking , held its breath . At half-past three , young Dahlgren , of the _ Daily Wahaskan _ , spoiled a good story for his own paper by spreading the report that most of the men had sullenly drawn their pay , but as yet not a man of them had signed on for further employment . At four o'clock the _ Daily Wahaskan 's _ windows bore a bulletin to the effect that a mass indignation meeting was in progress in front of the Pottery Flat saloon ; and at half-past four it was whispered about that war had been declared . Raymer and Griswold were telegraphing for strike-breakers ; and the men were swearing that the plant would be picketed and that scabs would be dealt with as traitors and enemies . It was between half-past four and five that Miss Grierson , driving in the basket phaeton , made her appearance on the streets , evoking the usual ripple of comment among the gossipers on the Winnebago porch as she tooled her clean-limbed little Morgan to a stop in front of the Farmers ' and Merchants ' Bank . Since it was long past the closing hours , the curtains were drawn in the bank doors and street-facing windows .