ten o'clock
Yet for one so omniscient , the editor was chary of counsel . Shelby went on to his little inner room and took up the day 's routine with his secretary , who casually dropped the news that the Boss had that morning arrived in Albany and begun to receive the faithful at an early hour . Whether owing to this cause or not , Shelby 's own quota of legislative callers was small . At ten o'clock he met briefly the delegates of a labor organization , who in an embarrassed fashion had much to say of plutocrats and trusts ; and with their departure came a fluttering invasion from a young ladies ' boarding-school , headed by a chaperone laboriously intent on improving the girlish mind . All requested autographs , which were readily supplied from the stock in hand , and a round half-dozen asked the private secretary in strictest confidence if the governor were a married man . He had but just returned to his desk when an orderly handed him the card of the Boss . `` You 'll see him here ? ''