eight o'clock in the evening
But not thus easily could I be shaken out of my chosen profession . In thirty-eight minutes I was at work as managin ' editor of a mornin ' paper . That particular Basswood Junction was just startin ' a daily , the kind the real-estate men and the local congressman have to support or go out of the business . Their editor had been raised on a weekly , and had been used to goin ' to sleep at eight o'clock in the evening . The rumor spread that a metropolitan journalist had fallen out of a balloon into their midst . That morning 's paper was two days late . So I just went in and went to work .