about ten o'clock of the Fourth of July
`` All right , '' he agreed , `` and you can say for me that I 'll pay five thousand dollars in gold and give all the men and horses he needs to the man who has the nerve to get back that bunch of cattle , and bring in the man who rustled them . I 'll sure make this a test case . '' So Jed Parker set out to discover his man with nerve . At about ten o'clock of the Fourth of July a rider topped the summit of the last swell of land , and loped his animal down into the single street of Pereza . The buildings on either side were flat-roofed and coated with plaster . Over the sidewalks extended wooden awnings , beneath which opened very wide doors into the coolness of saloons . Each of these places ran a bar , and also games of roulette , faro , craps , and stud poker .