midnight
Evans had held on to his mine when he had found it , and he had downed the rivals who had tried to take it away from him , and he had bought the railroads who had tried to crush him -- and now he had come to Wall Street to fight the men who had tried to ruin his railroads . But through it all , he had kept the heart of a woman , and the sight of real distress was unbearable to him . He was the sort of man to keep a roll of ten-thousand-dollar bills in his pistol pocket , and to give one away if he thought he could do it without offence . And , on the other hand , men told how once when he had seen a porter insult a woman passenger on his line , he jumped up and pulled the bell-cord , and had the man put out on the roadside at midnight , thirty miles from the nearest town ! No , it was the women folks , he said to Montague , with his grim laugh . It did n't trouble him at all to be called a `` noovoo rich '' ; and when he felt like dancing a shakedown , he could take a run out to God 's country . But the women folks had got the bee in their bonnet .