seven o'clock
`` What 'd I tell you , Pete ? They 're watching us like cats . If you want to know what the C. & S. C. think about us , you just drop one timber and you 'll find out . '' But nothing dropped , and when Peterson , who had been on hand all the latter part of the afternoon , took hold , at seven o'clock , the first timbers of the tower had been set in place , somewhere down inside the rough shed of a spouting house , and more would go in during the night , and during other days and nights , until the narrow framework should go reaching high into the air . Another thing was recognized by the men at work on that night shift , even by the laborers who carried timbers , and grunted and swore in strange tongues ; this was that the night shift men had suddenly begun to feel a most restless energy crowding them on , and they worked nearly as well as Bannon 's day shifts . For Peterson 's spirits had risen with a leap , once the misunderstanding that had been weighing on him had been removed , and now he was working as he had never worked before . The directions he gave showed that his head was clearer ; and there was confidence in his manner .