six o'clock
You just trust to me from now on . From now on I 'll look out for you , my boy . '' He could hear himself saying that . At six o'clock , still shaping the day toward the appointment with Steering , he took a great bevy of men , farmers , stockmen , storekeepers , to the Canaan Hotel for supper . Headed by Madeira , -- who kept close to him a man named Salver , to whom he constantly referred as `` our engineering friend from Joplin , '' -- the party stamped into the hotel dining-room . And though various members of the party were heavily booted , big , brawny , and in other ways cut out as assertive , it was much as though they were not there , so completely did Madeira fill the room . In the hotel office , after the supper had been disposed of , though every man had a cigar or a pipe in his mouth , it seemed as though Madeira were really doing all the smoking , so insistently did the smoke wreaths twist about his big face , as the others edged nearer him and closed in upon him .