nine o'clock
In the course of the next hour or two there were a dozen newspaper reporters besieging the mansion , and camera men taking pictures of it , and even spying with opera glasses from a distance . Before my mind 's eye flashed new headlines : This was an aspect of the matter which we had at first overlooked . Carpenter was due at Judge Ponty 's police-court at nine o'clock that morning . Was he going ? demanded the reporters , and if not , why not ? Mary Magna no doubt would be willing to sacrifice the two hundred dollars bail that she had put up ; but the judge had a right to issue a bench warrant and send a deputy for the prisoner .