nine o'clock
Arm in arm with his grandson , the Duke traversed the lobby and went up the broad stairs to the State Committee headquarters -- double parlors on the floor above . The men who were sitting in the main parlor saluted the old man in the offhand manner of intimates . He drew his grandson into the privacy of the rear room . `` Now , my boy , get your hat , take a carriage and meet General Waymouth at the nine o'clock train . I 've had him on the telephone . He 's coming here to-night . Between us , he 's grown lukewarm on our proposition .