eleven
o'clock
Policemen stroll listlessly about , and have little to do . But at nightfall there is a change ; the scrape of fiddles , the stamp of boot-heels , is heard from the dance-halls . Oaths and boisterous laughter everywhere strike the ear . Children , half-clad , run loose at eleven o'clock . Two policemen at a corner interrogate a young man who is hot and excited and has no hat . He admits that he saw three men run from the alley-way and saw the sailor come staggering out after them , but he does not know who the men were . The policemen `` take him in , '' on suspicion .