one o'clock
You allowed Pook to do just as he pleased . I should like to know what money Pook has got on it , and which way he laid it . '' This disgusted Silverbridge so much that he turned away and would have no more to say to Tifto . Before one o'clock , at which hour it was stated nominally that the races would commence , general opinion had formed itself , -- and general opinion had nearly hit the truth . General opinion declared that the nail had been driven in wilfully , -- that it had been done by Tifto himself , and that Tifto had been instigated by Captain Green . Captain Green perhaps over-acted his part a little . His intimacy with the Major was well known , and yet , in all this turmoil , he kept himself apart as though he had no interest in the matter .