nine o'clock
The unpatriotic villains ! They know that in disgracing you they would discredit the United States , and in their hearts they know that your measures are the only wheels for this country to run on ; but to their party spite they would sacrifice everything . I 'll be there . '' And when the men called that night at nine o'clock , he read them the correspondence from beginning to end -- Reynold 's letters , and those of the woman . More than once Muhlenberg begged him to desist , but he was merciless . When he had finished , Hamilton explained that he had disguised his handwriting lest the man forge or make other use of it . The three rose as soon as the ordeal was over .