about eleven o'clock in the
morning
For while the chances that the old capitalist would come to the rescue were greatly lessened , Jefferson Worth 's financial ruin was certain if the critical situation at home was not relieved instantly . Sending the telegram to Abe Lee he took the first train for San Felipe . It was indeed a forlorn hope . Mr. Worth 's train arrived in San Felipe about eleven o'clock in the morning . Scanning the register at the principal hotel he found the eastern man 's name , but the clerk informed him that Mr. Cartwright was out for the day sight-seeing with a party of friends from New York and would not likely return until late in the evening . No one observing the quiet , gray-faced man who waited in the hotel lobby that evening could have said that there was more on his mind than a mild interest in the evening paper . Yet Jefferson Worth was reading an account of The King 's Basin strike .