five o'clock
The cigars are giving out again , and the rush has slackened , and he detaches the People 's Champion from the line and draws him to the inner room . `` Brush Bascom 's conducting a bourse on the second floor and is running the price up right along , '' cried the honest and indignant Mr. Tooting . `` He 's stringin ' Adam Hunt all right . They say he 's got Adam to cough up six thousand extra since five o'clock , but the question is -- ai n't he stringin ' us ? He paid six hundred for a block of ten not quarter of an hour ago -- and nine of 'em were our delegates . '' It must be remembered that these are Mr. Tooting 's words , and Mr. Crewe evidently treated them as the product of that gentleman 's vivid imagination . Translated , they meant that the Honourable Adam B. Hunt has no chance for the nomination , but that the crafty Messrs. Botcher and Bascom are inducing him to think that he has -- by making a supreme effort .