nine o'clock
and you wo n't do but very little after breakfast , here ! ' shouted Hunter , suddenly entering the room . ` I 've bin watchin ' of you through the crack of the door for the last ` arf hour ; and you 've not done a dam ' stroke all the time . You make out yer time sheet , and go to the office at nine o'clock and git yer money ; we ca n't afford to pay you for playing the fool . ' Leaving the man dumbfounded and without waiting for a reply , Misery went downstairs and after kicking up a devil of a row with the foreman for the lack of discipline on the job , he instructed him that Smith was not to be permitted to resume work after breakfast . Then he rode away . He had come in so stealthily that no one had known anything of his arrival until they heard him bellowing at Smith .