midnight
Mrs. Goodrich , when she received no answer to her call , thought that her daughter was sleeping , and with a sigh of relief , went to her own room . A little later , the father came upstairs and retired . Then Frank returned home , and the trembling listener heard the servants locking up the house . When all was still , and her watch told her that it was a few minutes past midnight , she carefully opened the door , and with her satchel in her hand , stole cautiously down the stairs and out of the house . Hurrying as fast as she could to Broadway , she found a cab , and was driven to the depot on the east side . As Amy stepped from the vehicle beneath the electric light and paused a moment to give the driver his fare , a man came out of a saloon on the corner near by . It was Mr. Whitley .