9 o'clock
He rises . `` Coming back , '' says the monument-maker confidentially to his inquirer , `` I can fix you a beautiful memorial for much less money and it will answer every purpose . '' `` I 'll see you again , '' says the customer , cooling rapidly away from the business . `` I must go to the North Side and get back here by 9 o'clock . '' Why shall not David Lockwin take the night train and leave this living tomb in which the world has put him ? `` In which I put myself ! '' he corrects .