nine o'clock
He knew that it was popular because it was called so in a Chicago paper . When the six copies arrived with a danseuse on the covers he read the `` words , '' looked wistfully at the symbols which shut him out , and felt well pleased . `` Got up quite attractive , '' he thought , and fastened the six copies in the window of his music store . It was not yet nine o'clock of a vivid morning . Cornish had his floor and sidewalk sprinkled , his red and blue plush piano spreads dusted . He sat at a folding table well back in the store , and opened a law book . For half an hour he read .