nine o'clock
In answer to the engineer 's questioning look he spoke in colorless words , with machine-like exactness , as if the matter under consideration were a mere mathematical problem presented for his solution . `` The Company owns the banks . Greenfield went into the telegraph office this morning as Cartwright and I came out . Abe would get my message by nine o'clock . The banks would get Greenfield 's instructions the same time . Abe would at once promise the men their money to-morrow . That cashier did n't tell him they would n't handle the business until too late for him to get me before the banks closed here .