midnight
Then he turns to me . `` Here is another chance for you to lose some dough , '' he says . `` I 'm gon na take Wilkinson and his trick overcoats down to Washington by way of a auto truck . If we leave here at midnight , we got about seventeen hours to make 225 miles , that 's an average of around thirteen miles a hour . The Gaflooey one-ton truck can make twenty , if chased . Of course we may hit some bum roads or lose the carburetor and so forth , which might delay us some . What 'll you bet I do n't put this over ? ''