midnight
`` I 'll put a stop to that ! '' In the hall he found Ainsley surrounded by a group of startled servants . `` You get that car at the door in five minutes ! '' he was shouting , `` and YOU telephone the hotel to have my trunks out of the cellar and on board the Kron Prinz Albert by midnight . Then you telephone Hoboken that I want a cabin , and if they have n't got a cabin I want the captain 's . And tell them anyway I 'm coming on board to-night , and I 'm going with them if I have to sleep on deck . And YOU , '' he cried , turning to Mortimer , `` take a shotgun and guard that lake , and if anybody tries to molest those birds -- shoot him !