nine o'clock
Then Bill wanted him to go to a movie , and after a praiseworthy hesitation Bud yielded to temptation and went . No use going home now , just when Marie would be rocking the kid to sleep and would n't let him speak above a whisper , he told his conscience . Might as well wait till they settled down for the night . At nine o'clock Bud went home . He was feeling very well satisfied with himself for some reason which he did not try to analyze , but which was undoubtedly his sense of having saved Bill from throwing away six hundred dollars on a bum car ; and the weight in his coat pocket of a box of chocolates that he had bought for Marie . Poor girl , it was kinda tough on her , all right , being tied to the house now with the kid . Next spring when he started his run to Big Basin again , he would get a little camp in there by the Inn , and take her along with him when the travel was n't too heavy .