midnight
Her simple logic calmed his restless thoughts , but there was still a strange wistfulness in his heart about Bonnie . She looked so white and resigned and sad ! He wished she had n't gone quite so far out of his life . Meantime , out in the darkness of the night Bonnie 's train whirled along , and some time during the long hours between midnight and dawning it passed in a rush and a thunder of sound the express that was bearing back to Courtland another menace to his peace of mind . Uncle Ramsey was large and imposing , with an effulgent complexion and a prosperous presence . He wore a double-jeweled ring on his apoplectic finger , and a scarab scarf-pin . His eyes were keen and shifty ; his teeth had acquired the habit of clutching his fat black cigar viciously while he snarled his rather loose lips about them in conversation .