about nine o'clock
`` Huh ! '' he grunted . `` You 'll look upon a hatful of them before the month is out . '' That same morning Landry Court found himself in the corridor on the ground floor of the Board of Trade about nine o'clock . He had just come out of the office of Gretry , Converse & Co. , where he and the other Pit traders for the house had been receiving their orders for the day . As he was buying a couple of apples at the news stand at the end of the corridor , Semple and a young Jew named Hirsch , Pit traders for small firms in La Salle Street , joined him . `` Hello , Court , what do you know ? ''