five in the morning
I was so sore I could have smashed him . And while we stood there arguing , without a nickel on the board , the wheel was rollin ' dead our way -- enough to have put us ahead of the game . `` I gave him his hundred , and told him to ` take it and chase himself ' -- I was through with him . I stuck to the game until five in the morning . They got every cent I had in the world . `` Well , I went to the hotel and went to bed , but I lay there wondering how I was going to dig up the money to pay my bill , and give me a start when my luck turned again . The longer I wondered the tougher it seemed .