9 A.M.
Where can I find you ? '' Marrineal gave a telephone address . `` It is n't in the book , '' he said . `` It will always get me between 9 A.M. and noon . '' They talked of matters journalistic , Marrineal lapsing tactfully into the role of attentive listener again , until there appeared in the lower room a dark-faced man of thirty-odd , spruce and alert , who , upon sighting them , came confidently forward . Marrineal ordered him a drink and presented him to the two journalists as Mr. Ely Ives . As Mr. Ives , it appeared , was in the secret of Marrineal 's journalistic connection , the talk was resumed , becoming more general .