nine o'clock
I led the way and he followed me . I closed the door behind us , took the thirty-five hundred dollars in notes from my pocket and laid them on the table . `` There 's the money , George , '' I said . `` Now you 've got just time enough to catch that nine o'clock train for Boston . '' I thought , for a moment , he was going to collapse altogether . Then he pounced upon the money , counted it with fingers that trembled so he could scarcely control them , and turned to me . `` Ros -- Ros -- '' he stammered .