They had been give a day to think it over, hadn't they? That was twenty-four hours. So the latest they could meet was... about midnight tonight, right? Because that was when they had been given the proposition last night. So maybe they could do both.
He backed out of his chair and flipped it around, tucking it under the table. "Guys, I'm going to check up on this," he tapped the newspaper, "real quick. I think we have time to run over there before heading down to the police station." To our deaths, he thought, but not aloud.