nine o'clock
The clerk smiled tentatively . `` The chamber-maid found you in bed at eleven o'clock in the morning , sir . '' `` The chamber-maid must have come into the wrong room , '' answered Donaldson , beginning to suspect that he had caught the two men in the act of thieving . `` I was n't in bed at all yesterday , and left the city at nine o'clock . '' The clerk hitched uneasily . It was evident to him that Donaldson had been drinking , and had the usual morning-after reluctance about admitting it . The night telephone operator had said that he had acted queer .