ten o'clock
It was the course which he , given the man 's difficulties , would himself follow were he in Shelby 's place . But he had found it unsafe to forecast this man 's actions by his own , and by temperament he counted nothing certain till he knew it as a fact accomplished . The governor would undoubtedly return to Albany sometime to-morrow ; it therefore behooved him to delay that return until the time for hostile action should expire . Searching out a telegraph office , he ascertained the point at which a message would intercept the train , and wired Shelby a peremptory request for a meeting in New York on the morrow at ten o'clock . `` I 'm making a morning appointment with the governor , '' he told Krantz . The satellite slanted his head knowingly . Past midnight the answer reached the club where the Boss made his bachelor home .