two in the morning
`` Dot iss goot , '' Olaf Henderson muttered , regarding the gambler with profound admiration . `` Ver ' good , '' affirmed French Louis . `` I t ` ink we take a drink on dat one time , eh ? '' It was two in the morning when the dancers , bent on getting something to eat , adjourned the dancing for half an hour . And it was at this moment that Jack Kearns suggested poker . Jack Kearns was a big , bluff-featured man , who , along with Bettles , had made the disastrous attempt to found a post on the head-reaches of the Koyokuk , far inside the Arctic Circle . After that , Kearns had fallen back on his posts at Forty Mile and Sixty Mile and changed the direction of his ventures by sending out to the States for a small sawmill and a river steamer .