nine o’clock
There 's some stuff in him -- if it only has a chance . '' `` I 've done a good piece of business , Berry , '' he said cheerfully as he passed through the barber-shop . `` Suh , if you say so , '' said the barber , and they left the shop together . Promptly at nine o'clock Jethro Fawe knocked at Ingolby 's door , and was admitted by the mulatto man-servant Jim Beadle , who was to Ingolby like his right hand . It was Jim who took command of his house , `` bossed '' his two female servants , arranged his railway tours , superintended his kitchen -- with a view to his own individual tastes ; valeted him , kept his cigars within a certain prescribed limit by a firm actuarial principle which transferred any surplus to his own use ; gave him good advice , weighed up his friends and his enemies with shrewd sense ; and protected him from bores and cranks , borrowers and `` dead-beats . '' Jim was accustomed to take a good deal of responsibility , and had more than once sent people to the right-about who had designs on his master , even though they came accredited . On such occasions he did not lie to protect himself when called to account , but told the truth pertinaciously .