a quarter past two
But Leonora , unaware of her husband 's worthlessness and desperate in her calamities , sneered and jeered and lashed him on -- to ruin . The coyote could put on the airs of a lion so long as the lion was his friend and protector ; when he kept on in kingly ways after the lion had cast him off , he speedily came to grief . As he stood looking helplessly up and down Broad Street he was debating what move to make . There were about even measures of truth and falsehood in his statement to Dumont -- he did need two hundred thousand dollars ; and he must have it before a quarter past two that day or go into a bankruptcy from which he could not hope to save a shred of reputation or to secrete more than fifty thousand dollars . `` To the New York Life Building , '' he finally said to the driver as he got into his hansom . Then to himself : `` I 'll have a go at old Herron . '' He knew that Dumont and Herron had quarreled , and that Herron had sold out of the National Woolens Company .