nine o'clock
`` Our sailing , as I told you before , is day after to-morrow . But one of the other lines has a sailing to-morrow , at nine P. M. '' `` They all seem to sail at nine o'clock at night , '' mused Sam . `` Yes , that is the usual hour , '' answered the clerk . `` Well , if we have to , we can take that boat at nine o'clock to-morrow night , '' remarked Dick . `` Provided you can get accommodations , '' said the clerk . `` Oh , we 'll get aboard somehow -- if we really have to go . '' Jim Hendricks insisted that the Rovers ride up to his house with him , and away sped the touring car for the most fashionable quarter of Seattle .