eleven
o'clock
They had won , and during the afternoon the Panthers , overconfident , had suffered two defeats by the Maroons , leaving the teams again practically tied for the lead . McCarthy spent the evening loitering around the hotel lobbies , still hoping for an opportunity to see Miss Tabor , and she failed to appear at dinner and was not with Mr. and Mrs. Clancy when they started out for a car ride . He wandered aimlessly around until , abandoning his quest , he went to his room disconsolately . It was not yet eleven o'clock , but Swanson was preparing for sleep . As McCarthy came into the room he stopped to laugh . The giant shortstop was in his pajamas , on his back in the bed . With one bare foot he was holding a sheet of paper against the head board , and with a pencil grasped between the toes of the other foot he was laboriously striving to write .