half past six o'clock
You 'll find him at the hotel eating supper . '' Varney , looking at him , knew then what it was that Smith thought he owed to him and Maginnis . He went back up the stairs and the two men shook hands in rather an agitated silence . At half past six o'clock , or thereabouts , James Hackley dragged slowly up Main Street . He was garbed in his working suit of denim blue , trimmed with monkey wrench and chisel , and he wore , further , an air of exaggerated fatigue . A rounded protuberance upon his cheek indicated that the exhilaration of the quid was not wanting to his inner man , but the solace he drew from it appeared pitifully trifling . Now and then he would pause , rest his person against a lamp-post , or the front of some emporium , and shake his head despondently , like one most fearful of the consequences of certain matters .