nine o'clock
And poor little Tip raised so tenderly as a pet ! '' As it afterwards turned out , however , Mrs. Branders , after offering her son a present of a hundred dollars to stay out of the Army , had at last tearfully given her consent to his becoming a soldier . She even went to the recruiting office that afternoon with Tip , and gave a reluctant consent to her son 's enlistment . `` Be here at nine o'clock , sharp , to-morrow morning , '' directed Lieutenant Shackleton . It was doubtful if either youngster slept very well that night . Both were too full of thoughts of the Army and of the service . When Hal did dream it was of Indians and Filipinos .