two o'clock
Joseph Zimmerman would only risk twenty-five thousand dollars . He could see where , all told , he might raise seventy-five thousand dollars by hypothecating double the amount in shares ; but this was ridiculously insufficient . He had figured again , to a dollar , and he must have at least two hundred and fifty thousand dollars above all his present holdings , or he must close his doors . To-morrow at two o'clock he would know . If he did n't he would be written down as `` failed '' on a score of ledgers in Philadelphia . What a pretty pass for one to come to whose hopes had so recently run so high ! There was a loan of one hundred thousand dollars from the Girard National Bank which he was particularly anxious to clear off .