one o'clock
Not a few asserted she would disappear before the unmasking . Others were equally positive that she was the woman-reporter of the Kansas City Star , come to write them up at ninety dollars per column . And the men at the scales worked busily . At one o'clock every couple took to the floor . The unmasking began amid laughter and delight , like that of carefree children . There was no end of Oh 's and Ah 's as mask after mask was lifted . The scintillating ` Aurora Borealis ' became the brawny negress whose income from washing the community 's clothes ran at about five hundred a month .