about nine o'clock
This was a precarious employment , and depended much more on good fortune than the business of a newsboy or bootblack . However , in the course of the afternoon Julius earned twenty-five cents for carrying a carpet-bag to French 's Hotel . That satisfied him , for he was not very ambitious . He invested the greater part of it in some coffee and cakes at one of the booths in Fulton Market , and about nine o'clock , tired with his day 's tramp , sought the miserable apartment in Centre street which he shared with Jack Morgan . In a room on the third floor of a miserable tenement house in Centre street two men were sitting . Each had a forbidding exterior , and neither was in any danger of being mistaken for a peaceful , law-abiding citizen . One , attired in a red shirt and pants , was leaning back in his chair , smoking a clay pipe .