nine o'clock
If the armistice had been signed we would know something of it by this time . '' `` Hold your horses , '' said Jack . `` I 'm just as anxious as you are , but there is no use getting excited about it . '' `` Well , '' said Frank , `` if we have n't heard something by nine o'clock , I 'm going to turn in . '' But at nine o'clock no word had been received . `` I know we shall hear nothing to-night , '' said Frank , rising , `` so I 'm going to tumble into my bunk . '' `` Help yourself , '' said Jack , looking up from a book he was reading .