six o'clock
I asked with a laugh , for it did seem in a way funny to see one of the leading citizens of old Goodloets so distressed over its improvement and modernization through its enormous prosperity . `` He was down in the workmen 's camp last night having a song service and seventy-five of them stayed there singing until midnight . Jacob had to put out his lights at eleven o'clock because there were not enough to pay to keep open . The chapel was full Sunday night and Jacob closed the Last Chance at six o'clock for the first time in its existence . The men passed it on to him to do it and he came and sat in a back pew himself . They all call Mr. Goodloe ` Parson , ' and he walks in and around and about this town night and day shedding a kind of peace and good will even into the darkest corners . He lends a hand here and there with the work , eats out of the men 's dinner pails when that Jefferson is too lazy to cook for him , or takes a bite off some stove down in the Settlement out of some old woman 's pork and cabbage pot with just as much grace and heartiness as he eats at Nell Morgan 's or Harriet Henderson 's most elaborate dinners .