about nine o'clock
The gallery , was done . Bannon had been on the work since midnight -- sixteen consecutive hours . He had eaten nothing except two sandwiches that he had stowed in his pockets . His only pause had been about nine o'clock that morning when he had put his head in the office door to wish Hilda a Merry Christmas . When the evening shift came on -- that was just after four -- one of the under-foremen tried to get him to talking , but Bannon was too tired to talk . `` Get your tracks and rollers in , '' he said . `` Take down the cable . ''