midnight
This message had been brought by Professor Rascovertus , the former college professor , who had come in a cab and had made the bare announcement to those on hand and then had driven away . The assembled two hundred and eighty-one had heard the statement in silence and forthwith had departed in a quiet and orderly manner . O'Hara asked permission to send his men back to the station house . Congressman Mallard returned to Washington on the midnight train , his secretary accompanying him . Outwardly he did not bear himself like a sick man , but on his handsome face was a look which the secretary had never before seen on his employer 's face . It was the look of a man who asks himself a question over and over again . On Thursday , in conspicuous type , black faced and double-leaded , there appeared on the front page and again at the top of the editorial column of every daily paper , morning and evening , in the United States , and in every weekly and every monthly paper whose date of publication chanced to be Thursday , the following paragraph : `` There is a name which the press of America no longer prints .