nine o'clock
Now you know the sort of men that loafers are -- we _ are _ loafers , Dan , until we get out of India -- and _ do _ you think that we would sign a Contrack like that unless we was in earnest ? We have kept away from the two things that make life worth having . '' `` You wo n't enjoy your lives much longer if you are going to try this idiotic adventure . Do n't set the office on fire , '' I said , `` and go away before nine o'clock . '' I left them still poring over the maps and making notes on the back of the `` Contrack . '' `` Be sure to come down to the Serai to-morrow , '' were their parting words . The Kumharsen Serai is the great four-square sink of humanity where the strings of camels and horses from the North load and unload .