nine o’clock
`` This is just the case where they might be invaluable . If they fail , I have other resources ; but I shall try them first . That wire was to my dirty little lieutenant , Wiggins , and I expect that he and his gang will be with us before we have finished our breakfast . '' It was between eight and nine o'clock now , and I was conscious of a strong reaction after the successive excitements of the night . I was limp and weary , befogged in mind and fatigued in body . I had not the professional enthusiasm which carried my companion on , nor could I look at the matter as a mere abstract intellectual problem . As far as the death of Bartholomew Sholto went , I had heard little good of him , and could feel no intense antipathy to his murderers .