nine o'clock
`` Same here ! '' `` Me , too ! '' It seemed that they were all eager to contribute to the pool , and Herbert , smiling with self-complaisant satisfaction , felt that he had cleverly accomplished his purpose . Shortly before nine o'clock on Saturday morning a touring car , containing three youths , not one of whom was over eighteen years of age , whirled up before the door of Mrs. Conway 's boarding house in Oakdale and stopped . The occupants of the car did not belong in Oakdale ; they came from Wyndham , and the machine was the property of the father of the oldest one , who was at the wheel . This was Orville Foxhall , second baseman of the Wyndham nine . At Foxhall 's side sat a husky , raw-boned , long-armed chap , Dade Newbert , the pitcher on which Wyndham placed great dependence .