eleven o'clock
`` What is he doing to stem the joy tide ? '' I asked with a laugh , for it did seem in a way funny to see one of the leading citizens of old Goodloets so distressed over its improvement and modernization through its enormous prosperity . `` He was down in the workmen 's camp last night having a song service and seventy-five of them stayed there singing until midnight . Jacob had to put out his lights at eleven o'clock because there were not enough to pay to keep open . The chapel was full Sunday night and Jacob closed the Last Chance at six o'clock for the first time in its existence . The men passed it on to him to do it and he came and sat in a back pew himself . They all call Mr. Goodloe ` Parson , ' and he walks in and around and about this town night and day shedding a kind of peace and good will even into the darkest corners .