eleven o'clock
Frightened mobs will clamor about the doors of your banks . Other things will happen which it is not now necessary to enumerate . It will be the blackest day in Exchange history and one that will reflect itself in all the bourses of Europe . '' After eleven o'clock , when Mary Burton and Jefferson Edwardes returned from the theater , the girl caught a glimpse of a strange picture as she paused in the hall . Six silent men stood or sat about the brightly lighted library with blue wreaths of cigar smoke drifting upward above them . It was plain that this silence had fallen upon them only as they heard the door slam , and that , like their attitudes , it was strained and artificial . Hamilton Burton stood before the hearth with his face set as unyielding and immobile as chiseled granite .