one o'clock on Thursday
To offset this was : `` May third . To a chance , $ 0 . '' Sitting tight and watching the hands of his watch go round , with a deficit of five thousand dollars an hour piling up against him , was as hard work as Johnny Gamble had ever done ; and yet he knew that , if he succumbed to impatience and went to the De Luxe Apartments Company before they came to him , he would relinquish a fifty per cent , advantage . He saw another day slipping past him , with a total deficit of sixteen hours behind his schedule -- or an appalling shortage of eighty thousand dollars -- when , at one o'clock on Thursday , the expected happened -- and a brisk little man , with a mustache which would have been highly luxuriant if he had not kept it bitten off as closely as he could reach it , dropped in , inquired for Loring , jerked a chair as close to him as he could get it and said , in one breath : `` Want to sell your river-view property ? '' `` Certainly , '' replied Loring , in whose name the property stood . `` Mr. Gamble is handling that for me . Mr. Chase , Mr. Gamble . ''