midnight
repeated old Pros hollowly . It was the younger man who answered this time , with an ugly lift of the lip over his teeth , between a sneer and a snarl . `` She 's gone gaddin ' around with some of her swell friends . She may be home before midnight , an ' then again she may not , '' he said . The old man collapsed on the lower step . `` I wish ' t Johnnie was here , '' he said querulously . `` I -- '' he looked about him confusedly -- `` I 've found her silver mine . ''