midnight Sunday
At the Marigold Café next morning he was almost touched to observe that both Gibney and McGuffey showed up arrayed in dungarees , wherefore Scraggs knew his late enemies purposed proceeding to the _ Maggie _ immediately after breakfast and working in the engine room all day Sunday . Such action , when he knew both gentlemen to be the possessors of wealth far beyond the dreams of avarice , bordered so closely on the miraculous that Scraggs made a mental resolve to play fair in the future -- at least as fair as the limits of his cross-grained nature would permit . He was so cheerful and happy that McGuffey , taking advantage of the situation , argued him into some minor repairs to the engine . The work was so far advanced by midnight Sunday that Scraggs realized he would get to sea by Tuesday noon , so he dismissed Gibney and McGuffey and ordered them home for some needed sleep . McGuffey 's heart was with the _ Maggie 's _ internal economy , however , and on Monday morning he was up betimes , leaving Mr. Gibney to snore blissfully until eight o'clock . About nine o'clock , as Mr. Gibney was on his way to the Marigold Café for breakfast , he was mildly interested , while passing the Embarcadero warehouse , to note the presence of fully a dozen seedy-looking gentlemen of undoubted Hebraic antecedents , congregated in a circle just outside the warehouse door . There was an air of suppressed excitement about this group of Jews that aroused Mr. Gibney 's curiosity ; so he decided to cross over and investigate , being of the opinion that possibly one of their number had fallen in a fit .