nine o'clock
At the last thought , Thorpe decided to send a second message from the next station . He did so . It read : `` Another buyer of timber on same train with me . Must have money at nine o'clock or lose land . '' He paid day rates on it to insure immediate delivery . Suppose the boy should be away from home ! Everything depended on Wallace Carpenter ; and Thorpe could not but confess the chance slender .