About nine o'clock
`` I can go later , '' thought Julius . `` It will do just as well . '' In this he was mistaken , as we shall see . About nine o'clock , after a comfortable breakfast , for which he had paid out of his morning 's earnings , Julius went round again to Paul 's necktie stand . He had just opened for business when the boy came up . `` You 're late this mornin ' , '' said Julius . `` I was here before . ''