about nine A.M.
`` Of course she only told that to me , not to Margery 's mother . I do n't know -- mebbe she would of put her away , she was that frightened little Margery would get Junior killed off in some horrible manner , like the time she got him to see how high he dast jump out of the apple tree from , or like the time she told him , one ironing day , that if he drank a whole bowlful of starch it would make him have whiskers like his pa in fifteen minutes . Things like that -- not fatal , mebbe , but wearing . `` Well , this day come a telegram about nine A.M. for Mrs. W.B. , that her aunt , with money , is very sick in New Jersey , which is near Yonkers ; so she and Mrs. L.H. Cummins , her sister , must go to see about this aunt -- and would I stay and look after the two kids and not let them get poisoned or killed or anything serious ? And they might have to stay overnight , because the aunt was eccentric and often thought she was sick ; but this time she might be right . She was worth all the way from three to four hundred thousand dollars . `` So I said I 'd love to stay and look after the little ones .