about nine o'clock
`` Yes , '' I objected , `` but it will cost more than two cents to engage a man to look after them . '' `` Perfectly easy , '' said Jimmie , grandly . `` I 'll find you a college fellow who 'll be glad to come during the vacation for his board and a mere pittance , only you 'll have to set up more filling board than you gave me tonight . '' Dr. MacRae dropped in about nine o'clock , after visiting the hospital ward . We 've got three cases of whooping cough , but all isolated , and no more coming . How those three got in is a mystery . It seems there is a little bird that brings whooping cough to orphan asylums .