about nine o'clock
I cried , as soon as I had recovered sufficiently to gasp out the word . `` Shpooks , '' replied Barney . `` Ut came about like this , sorr . It was the Froiday two wakes afther you left , I became un ` asy loike along about nine o'clock in the avenin ' , and I fought I 'd come around here and see if everything was sthraight . Me wife sez ut 's foolish of me , sorr , and I sez maybe so , but I ca n't get ut out o ' me head thot somet ` ing 's wrong . '' ` Ye locked everything up safe whin ye left ? ' sez she . ''