twelve o'clock
They had calls upon them for one million five hundred thousand dollars in the first fifteen minutes after opening the doors , and at once closed them again , the failure being ascribed to Collis P. Huntington 's Central Pacific Railroad and the Chesapeake & Ohio . There was a long-continued run on the Fidelity Trust Company . News of these facts , and of failures in New York posted on ` change , strengthened the cause Cowperwood was so much interested in ; for he was selling as high as he could and buying as low as he could on a constantly sinking scale . By twelve o'clock he figured with his assistants that he had cleared one hundred thousand dollars ; and by three o'clock he had two hundred thousand dollars more . That afternoon between three and seven he spent adjusting his trades , and between seven and one in the morning , without anything to eat , in gathering as much additional information as he could and laying his plans for the future . Saturday morning came , and he repeated his performance of the day before , following it up with adjustments on Sunday and heavy trading on Monday . By Monday afternoon at three o'clock he figured that , all losses and uncertainties to one side , he was once more a millionaire , and that now his future lay clear and straight before him .