nine o'clock
During the busy October week Dink found little time to vent the brewing mischief within him . The afternoons were given over to the dogged pursuit of the elusive pigskin . In the evenings he resolutely turned his back on all midnight spreads or expeditions to the protecting shadows of the woods to smoke the abhorrent cigarette , for the joy of the risk run . At nine o'clock promptly each night he dove into bed , wrapped the covers about his head and , leaving the Tennessee Shad deep in the pages of Dumas , went soaring off into lands where goals are kicked from the center of the field , winning touchdowns scored in the last minute of play and bonfires lighted for his special honor . He was only end on the scrub , eagerly learning the game ; but with the intensity of his nature that territory , which each afternoon he lined up to defend , was his in sacred trust ; and he resolved that the trust of his captain should not be misplaced if it lay in his power to prevent it . However , the busy mind was not entirely inactive . With the memory of his financial disappointment came the resolve to square himself with The Roman and turn the tables on Doc Macnooder .