the hour of four
`` What a lot of money must be invested in business here , '' he thought . `` How I would like to be a merchant on such a scale . A person who had never been here would not imagine it was so grand ! '' When a neighboring clock showed the hour of four the boy thought it time to return to the insurance agent 's office . He was soon on his way downtown . At the entrance to the office , a policeman tapped him on the shoulder . It was the one he had met earlier in the day .