eleven o'clock
Jim reached Chicago late Sunday afternoon . On Monday he and Harvey were back in the office working on other matters . Not until Tuesday morning did Jim start for Manchester , where the stockholders ' meeting was to be held that afternoon . At eleven o'clock Jim walked into the lobby of the Illinois House , lighted a cigar at the news stand , nodded familiarly to the clerk , and passed on into the writing room . The clerk said to a bell-boy , -- `` Go into the bar and tell Mr. Blaney that Jim Weeks is here . '' Blaney had been waiting for that message for the past hour , for he had told the clerk to let him know as soon as Jim should arrive , and he had expected him earlier ; but now he only swore savagely at the bell-boy , and ordered another whiskey . It was the last of a long series of bracers , and it did its work a little too well .