nine o'clock
`` I am . '' Bart went first to the Haven home . He found Darry Haven chopping wood , told him of the burglary , and asked him to get down to the express office as soon as he could . `` If you do n't come back by nine o'clock , I will arrange to stay all day , '' promised Darry . Then Bart went to the house where Lem Wacker lived . It was characteristic of its proprietor -- ricketty , disorderly , the yard unkept and grown over with weeds . Smoke was coming out of the chimney .