nearly one o'clock
And everybody abused the local vestry . I really think some benefit to Jim might have come out of it all if only the excitement had lasted a little longer . Unfortunately , however , just at its height a spicy divorce case cropped up , and Jim was crowded out and forgotten . I told the boys this story of mine , after Jephson had done telling his , and , when I had finished , we found it was nearly one o'clock . So , of course , it was too late to do any more work to the novel that evening . We held our next business meeting on my houseboat . Brown was opposed at first to my going down to this houseboat at all .