nine o'clock
`` I 'm happy to meet you , gentlemen . This is a sort of table d'hote scout outfit that you see here ; two troops and a couple of sundries . Will you stay and have supper with us ? '' `` We ai n't fer interferin ' in no boys ' pleasures , '' said Mr. Barnabas Wise , `` but it 's our dooty to tell you that we 're the school committee of the village of East Ketchem , and s ` long as these youngsters hez moved inside the taown limits of East Ketchem they 'll hev to report for school at nine o'clock to-morrow morning . The taown line between East Ketchem and West Ketchem runs right through the middle of this island . '' A gaping silence followed this horrible pronouncement . `` We -- eh -- we are just camping here , pending -- '' began Scoutmaster Ned .