ten o'clock at
night
Braddock was cheerful , almost optimistic in consequence . He vociferously thanked his lucky sun , not his stars . Convinced that this was an uncommonly clever bit of paraphrasing , he repeated it at least a dozen times with great unction , always appending a careful explanation so that Dick would be sure to catch the point -- or , you might say , the twist . `` If we only had sunshine like this , '' he announced with a comprehensive wave of his hand , regardless of the fact that it was ten o'clock at night , `` I 'd clear a million dollars this season . We 've got nearly fifteen hundred dollars in that tent to-night , Dick . Twenty-one hundred on the day . A week of this beautiful sunshine and we 'd be doing three thousand a day .