four o'clock
When his temper had cooled , he got sober thoughts of indictments , and law suits , and unemployment . With a sigh , he contacted the engineer on the roof of the Cannon Building . Then he went to the window , and watched Monica 's thousand-foot face fade gradually out of sight . * * * * * At four o'clock that afternoon , a long white envelope crossed Tom 's blotter . There was a check to the amount of a month 's salary enclosed , and a briefly-worded message from the office of the president . When he left the office , Ostreich 's rolling phrases buzzed in his head like swarming gnats . '' ... a mockery of a great profession ... lowering of dignity ... incompatible with the highest ideals of ... '' At ten o'clock that night , Tom was telling his troubles to a red-coated man behind a chromium bar on Forty-ninth Street .