eleven o'clock before
The drift was all our way , but it was not big enough to offset all contingencies . There was nothing from the Ninth Ward yet . The counting was slow there . It was eleven o'clock before the vote of any precinct from the Ninth Ward came in . It stood as follows : Harlson , 71 . Sharkey , 53 . Harlson picked up the filled-out blank , glanced at it , and threw it down again .