one o'clock
And was not Alan the brother of Allis ? Mentally his argument , his analysis of the proper course to pursue was tortuous , not definable , or to be explained in concise phraseology ; but the one thought that rose paramount over all others was , that he must take his iniquitous punishment like a man . He had fought so strongly to shield the brother of the girl he loved that the cause in all its degradation had accrued to him . At one o'clock the president , Crane , arrived from New York , and in him was bitterness because of his yesterday 's defeat . He had sat nearly the whole night through mentally submerged in the double happening that had swept many men from the chess board . Lauzanne , the despised , had kept from his hand a small fortune , even when his fingers seemed tightening on the coin , too . That was one happening .