about nine o'clock
`` I noticed the wagon was n't in the shed . '' `` Oh , he sold it -- and the horse . '' `` When , Mrs. Wacker ? '' `` Last night some men came here , two of them , about nine o'clock . They talked a long time in the sitting room , and then Lem went out and hitched up . He came into the kitchen before he went away , and told me he had a chance to sell the rig , and was going to do it , and had to go down to the Sharp Corner to treat the men and close the bargain . '' `` I see , '' murmured Bart .