midnight
It has been a famous voyage , '' said the happy villain , as he personally examined the tug 's cabin . `` Nothing left ! So good-bye to you ! '' And away churned the tug , dashing out into the midnight darkness , the red light gleaming like the eye of some angry sea monster . In a couple of hours the creaking donkey-engines ceased their rattle , and Mr. August Meyer bounded up the gang-plank of the `` Mesopotamia . '' A burly Hoboken hotel-keeper stood waving the solitary adieu to the victorious murderer . They had seen Leah Einstein depart for New York City , her velvety eyes glistening with joy , for Braun had , in the seclusion of the Hoboken Hotel , handed her three five-hundred-dollar bills .