five o'clock
Max will stay over here and watch the piling . Now rush it . '' Half an hour had gone before the cable could be stretched from the spouting house , high over the tracks , down to the elevator structure , and before the hoisting engine could be got under steam . Meanwhile , for the third time since five o'clock , the laborers stood about , grumbling and growing more impatient . But at last it was all under way . The timbers were hoisted lightly up the side of the spouting house , hooked to the travelling block , and sent whirling down to Max 's waiting hands , to be snatched away and piled by the men . But compared with the other method , it was slow work , and Bannon found that , for lack of employment , it was necessary to let half of the men go for the night .