Midnight
`` Ten o'clock , usually , on Saturday nights , but we 'll keep open as late as you want , officer . '' `` Better keep open until midnight , then . '' So they did , Dick telephoning his parents at the store to explain that he was at the express office helping Dave . Midnight came and went . A few minutes after the new day had begun Hemingway came out of the cupboard . `` You may as well close up , Drowan , '' the plain clothes man decided . `` The fellow who calls himself Tripps is n't going to show up .