nearly midnight
I 'll bet I put five pounds on her that day . She was one hungry ` cropper . Hungry and sniffly . We idled away the afternoon and waited until nearly midnight to go back to the Sky Hi Club . Action is about at its peak then , and if the cross-roader had been tipping dice again , as they suspected , they would have had time to notice which table was n't making its vigorish . Plain enough where they were having trouble . Fowler Smythe was scowling through his glasses behind a table with Barney , the dealer I 'd hit with the Blackout .