nine o’clock
`` Oh ! will you ? '' and she paid no more attention to him until he started to go , when she gave him a broad smile , showing a couple of gold teeth . At nine o'clock he was waiting for her at the door , and she went with him . He took her for a drive on the _ mesa _ , heading for the only road house which the vicinity boasted . It was a great stone house , which had been built long ago by a rich man , and had later fallen into the hands of an Italian named Salvini , who installed a bar , and had both private dining rooms and bed rooms , these latter available only to patrons in whom he had the utmost confidence . This resort was informally known as the `` chicken ranch . ''