about nine
o'clock
It 's up to you now , Lafferty . Speak out . '' Mr. Lafferty , pretending to take as a good joke the attribution of his discoveries to `` dumb luck , '' promptly discoursed in a somewhat thick but rapid voice . `` On the Wednesday morning he was las ' seen , he left the house about nine o'clock , with a package wrapt in brown paper . I lose sight of 'm f ' r a couple ' f hours , but I pick 'm up again a little before twelve . He 's still got the same package . He goes into a certain department store , and buys a suit o ' clothes in the clothin ' department ; shirts , socks , an ' underclothes in the gents ' furnishin ' department ; a pair o ' shoes in the shoe department , an ' s ` mother things in other departments .