midnight
Had her cousin , Jessie Craig , been at home , she would have told her where she was going , but that lady had gone to Philadelphia for a few days ' visit , and there was no one in the Van Deusen home but the servants , to whom Miss Van Deusen had merely remarked that she was going out and would be back , probably , about ten . Mary Snow lived in an apartment hotel and occupied her two-room suite in spinster independence , carrying her own latch-key and accounting to no one for her goings and comings . So accustomed had the clerks and elevator-boys become to seeing her come in , during her newspaper days , at all hours of the night , that they paid little heed to her movements . So there was no one to feel any alarm when midnight came and they did not return from their excursion to the suffering Fitzgerald . Towards morning , however , when Miss Van Deusen failed to appear , the old butler who had known her so many years , became alarmed , and at daylight telephoned to Bailey Armstrong . The news came to him with a shock , but he went at once to Miss Snow 's hotel , thinking the Mayor might have stayed there for some reason . When he found them both missing , he became alarmed , sent for the chief of police and the district attorney , and telegraphed Jessie Craig to return .