About nine o'clock
`` Do n't feel bad , not at all . Cut him loose , Miss Dicksie -- do n't hesitate ; do it on my responsibility . Now let 's look at the cannibal leghorns -- and great Cæsar . '' About nine o'clock that night Puss ushered McCloud in from the river . Dicksie came running downstairs to meet him . `` Your cousin insisted I should come up to the house for some supper , '' said McCloud dryly . `` I could have taken camp fare with the men .