nearly twelve o'clock at night
`` The back door av the shop was broken open and many valuables extracted from the premises . '' `` Have you any idea when the robbery was committed ? '' asked Captain Putnam . `` Not exactly Mr. Fairchild was away all day yesterday and did not get home until nearly twelve o'clock at night . '' `` Did n't he leave anybody else to run the shop ? '' `` He has nobody . When he goes away he has to lock up . ''