nine
o'clock
I did not like the jaunty bravado of the masseur which now seemed to be returning , since nothing definite had taken shape . I determined that he should not pump me , as he evidently was trying to do . I had at least fulfilled Kennedy 's commission and felt that the sooner I left Josephson the better for both of us . I was surprised at dinner to receive a wire from Craig saying that he was bringing down Dr. Gunther , Mrs. Pearcy and Isabel to New York and asking me to have Warner Pearcy and Josephson at the laboratory at nine o'clock . By strategy I managed to persuade Pearcy to come , and as for Josephson , he could not very well escape , though I saw that as long as nothing more had happened , he was more interested in `` fixing '' the police so that he could resume business than anything else . As we entered the laboratory that night , Kennedy , who had left his party at a downtown hotel to freshen up , met us each at the door . Instead of conducting us in front of his laboratory table , which was the natural way , he led us singly around through the narrow space back of it .