About four o'clock
From the first , of course , he had been hurt that the office should have thought it necessary to send Bannon to supersede him , but so long as he had plenty to do and was in Bannon 's company every hour of the day , he had not taken time to think about it much . But now he thought of little else , and as time went on he succeeded in twisting nearly everything the new boss had said or done to fit his theory that Bannon was jealous of him and was trying to take from him the credit which rightfully belonged to him . And Bannon had put him in charge of the night shift , so Peterson came to think , simply because he had seen that Hilda was beginning to like him . About four o'clock one afternoon , not many days after Grady 's talk with Bannon , Peterson sat on the steps of his boarding-house , trying to make up his mind what to do , and wishing it were six o'clock . He wanted to stroll down to the job to have a chat with his friends , but he had somewhat childishly decided he was n't wanted there while Miss Vogel was in the office , so he sat still and whittled , and took another view of his grievances . Glancing up , he saw Grady , the walking delegate , coming along the sidewalk . Now that the responsibility of the elevator was off his shoulders he no longer cherished any particular animosity toward the little Irishman , but he remembered their last encounter and wondered whether he should speak to him or not .