About three o'clock
Outside , in the hallway , the judge waylaid the doctor . `` Ai n't he goin ' to pull through ? '' `` One chance in a thousand , '' was the curt answer . About three o'clock the judge got a telegram that made him swear fearfully , and thereafter they came fast . The Pope would use no money . The judge wired the Pope 's manager warily offering a thousand of his own . The answer came -- `` Too late . ''