nine o'clock
`` With both engines ! '' said Frank . `` Ay , both , '' replied Baxmore , with a laugh , as he sat down in front of the fire . `` Let me see ; it 's now nine o'clock , so they 've bin off an hour ; one to Walton Street , Brompton ; the other to Porchester Terrace , Bayswater . The call was the queerest I 've seen for many a day . We was all sittin ' here smokin ' our pipes , as usual , when two fellers came to the door , full split , from opposite pints o ' the compass , an ' run slap into each other . They looked like gentlemen ; but they was in such a state it was n't easy to make out what sort o ' fish they was .