midnight
Comin ' to the bank ? '' Mr. McCann put on his coat and hat and accompanied Scattergood to the bank , where he received a certified check for the full amount , gave Scattergood in return a thousand shares of stock , and a receipt which recited that Scattergood had paid for five hundred shares more , to be delivered within twenty-four hours . Scattergood went to see Mr. Linderman ; McCann went out to round up five hundred shares of stock . By midnight he was a worried young man . The stock he had thought to pick up so readily was not to be had . Everybody seemed to have disposed of it and nobody seemed to know exactly who had been doing the buying , for the options had been taken in a number of names . Next morning McCann sought diligently until he found Scattergood .