falls five minutes after nine
Word had come from the chief to hold the paper open until nine o'clock . If Paris failed to fall by nine everybody could go home and spend the rest of the night wrangling with his wife or looking at a movie . If it fell by nine there would be a final extra . `` I hope the damned town falls five minutes after nine , '' growled Warren , `` if it 's got to fall . Let it fall for the morning papers . What the hell are they for , anyway ? I 've got a rotten headache . ''