half past eight
If you lose the game to-morrow do n't any of you ever show up again at a class dance ! '' The girls went away laughing , yet they meant what they said . Gridley girls were baseball fans and football rooters of the most intense sort . Dave wanted to be abed by half past eight that evening , as Coach Luce had requested ; but about a quarter past eight , just as he was about to retire , his mother discovered that she needed coffee for the next morning 's breakfast , so she sent him to the grocer 's on the errand . Dick , while eating supper , thought of an item that he wanted to print in the next day 's `` Blade . '' Accordingly , he hurried to the newspaper office as soon as the meal was over . It was ten minutes past eight when Dick handed in his copy to the night editor .