nine o'clock
He could n't get away from it , because each man carried his own hell around with him . It was all stored up there ; nothing he had done was left out , and the more he put into it the more he got out , when the time came . This was his time . Ross and Doyle , with one or two others , found him there at nine o'clock , an untasted meal on the table , and the ends of innumerable cigarettes on the hearth . In the conference that followed he took but little part . The Russian urged immediate action , and Doyle by a saturnine silence tacitly agreed with him . But Louis only half heard them .