nine o'clock
And here the Filipino demonstrated to the uttermost that the amenities of civilization were yet undreamed of in his darkened intellect -- as between the orders of the man and the demands of the woman he obeyed the former . Deaf , even to that awful voice , he drove furiously on until brought up standing by the bayonets of the patrol in front of the English Club , and in a fury of denunciation and quiver of mingled wrath and excitement , Miss Perkins tumbled out into the arms of an amazed and disgusted sergeant , and demanded that he come at once to arrest a vile thief and deserter . That night the sentries all over the suburbs of Ermita and Malate were peering into every dark alleyway and closely scrutinizing every human being nearing their posts . Few and far between were these , for the natives were encouraged to remain indoors after nine o'clock , and the soldiers forbidden to be out . The streets were deserted save by occasional carriage or carromatta bearing army or navy officers , or what were termed the foreign residents -- English or German as a rule -- from club or calls to their quarters . `` Lights out '' sounded early at the barracks of the soldiery , for they were up with the dawn for breakfast that they might be through with their hardest drills before the heat of the day . The `` pool rooms , '' as the big _ Americanos _ called these `` wide open , '' single-tabled billiard saloons that flourished in almost every block , were required to put up their shutters at nine o'clock , and every discoverable establishment in which gambling had prevailed in other form had long since been closed by a stony-hearted chief of police , whose star was worn on each shoulder rather than the left breast , and who , to the incredulous amaze of Spaniard and Filipino alike , listened unmoved to the pleas of numerous prominent professors of the gambling industry , even when backed by proffers of a thousand a week in gold .