nine o'clock
`` All right , sir . I 've got a small knapsack that will hold all I want to carry . '' `` Good ! Be here to-morrow at nine o'clock . '' At the appointed hour Jasper received his instructions and a certain sum of money . He had provided himself with a belt , into which he put the money to guard against possible robbery , carrying only a few dollars in a pocket-book for outward show . In explanation of these precautions it must be stated that the events which I am describing took place some years since , when Kansas was more sparsely settled and life less secure than at present .