midnight
`` You know who to find ! You 're just getting up this story to be noticed . You 're always doing things to attract attention to yourself . You want to go riding around in an automobile and -- and -- Mr. Stoddard has probably gone in to Watauga and taken the midnight train for Boston . This looking around in the mountains is folly . Who would want to harm him in the mountains ? '' For a moment Johnnie stood , thwarted and non-plussed .