nine o'clock
Roscoe has gone up to Tonghoo about oil ; the MacNab is dining at the Pegu Club with one of his Big Pots and talking Flotilla and finance . '' `` All right , I 'll be ready in two jiffs -- you wo n't forget the coat ? '' `` Not likely ! We will taxi down to the end of Dalhousie Street , and into the bazaar about half-past nine o'clock , and then proceed on foot . I am taking two constables -- both armed . '' It was a gay and busy scene ; Dalhousie Street -- which , it is said , never sleeps -- was a blaze of light , humming with noise and excitement and packed with crowds of pleasure-seekers ; a crude mixture of races , struggling and pushing to their different goals of entertainment . As the two young men halted for a moment at a popular corner , it seemed as if the whole town and bazaar flowed past in a wave of colour and movement .