nine o'clock
No detective has yet found who sent her the message signed by Newton Fitzgerald , nor can they discover who was at the elevator to receive them when they mounted to their place of concealment , the regular incumbent having already proved an alibi . They met in the drug-store , but no one recognized or noticed them . The plot was carefully laid and successfully carried out , By whom , is at present , a mystery . '' By nine o'clock the Mayor was at her desk , with Mary Snow in her office . Friends tried to deter her , on the plea of needed rest , but she only laughed at them . `` Rest ? What else have I done but rest , for ten days past ? ''