noon
`` A raid ! A raid ! '' cried a passer-by . Another instant , and the cry , taken up by others , brought a crowd swarming around from Broadway , as if it were noon instead of midnight . There was no time to be lost now . Down the steps again dashed Garrick , after our expected failure both to get in peaceably and to pass the ice-box door by force . This time Dillon emerged from the cab with him .