four o'clock in the morning
Meantime , if you desire , I will receipt to you for the post fund or any other public money . '' `` That is the trouble , sir . The best I can do is give you an order for it . Post treasurers , as a rule , have not had to turn over their funds at four o'clock in the morning , '' which statement was true enough , however injudicious it might be to bruit it . Mild-mannered commanding officers sometimes amaze their subordinates by most unlooked for and unwelcome eruptiveness of speech when they feel that an unwarrantable liberty has been taken . Webb did not take fire . He turned icy .