nine o'clock
I went home and packed my trunk . The next morning I said to father : `` Give me my share of the profits for the last month , '' and he gave me one hundred and thirty dollars . `` I am going where no one knows me , mother , so good-bye . You 'll hear from me when I 'm settled , '' and I was actually off on the nine o'clock New York express . Every seat was full in every car but one -- one seat beside a pretty , fashionably-dressed young lady was vacant . I stood up against the wood-box and looked at that seat , as a boy looks at a jar of peppermint-drops in a candy-store window . After a while I reflected that these people were all strangers , and , of course , unaware of my infirmity ; this gave me a certain degree of courage .