midnight
I wondered what my grim , Covenanting ancestors would have made of it all . I never thought to have seen the like , and in my inexperience it was like a shock to me . My nocturnal explorations came to a sudden end . One foggy midnight , coming up Pacific Street with its glut of saloons , I was clouted shrewdly from behind and dropped most neatly in the gutter . When I came to , very sick and dizzy in a side alley , I found I had been robbed of my pocketbook with nearly all my money therein . Fortunately I had left my watch in the hotel safe , and by selling it was not entirely destitute ; but the situation forced me from my citadel of pleasant dreams , and confronted me with the grimmer realities of life . I became a habitué of the ten-cent restaurant .