nine o'clock
I 'm a reporter with a story to get . '' `` All right ; it 's up to a reporter to stick until he gets his news , '' agreed the other . `` You dismiss your taxi , and stay out here and dine , and I 'll run you back to town myself . And at nine o'clock I 'll answer your question and answer it straight . '' Banneker , gazing longingly at the bright turf of the field , accepted . Polo is to The Retreat what golf is to the average country club . The news that Archie Densmore had a new player down for a try-out brought to the side-lines a number of the old-time followers of the game , including Poultney Masters , the autocrat of Wall Street and even more of The Retreat , whose stables he , in large measure , supported .