midnight
I 'd like to know if you really are the advertising wizard that you think you are . '' So it was that long after Annie 's dinner dishes had ceased to clatter in the kitchen ; long after she had put her head in at the door to ask , `` Aigs ' r cakes for breakfast ? '' long after those two busy brains should have rested in sleep , the two sat at either side of the light-flooded table , the face of one glowing as he talked , the face of the other sparkling as she listened . And at midnight : `` Why , you infant wonder ! '' exclaimed Emma McChesney . At nine o'clock next morning when Jock McChesney entered the offices of the Berg , Shriner Advertising Company he carried a flat , compact bundle of papers under his arm encased in protecting covers of pasteboard , and further secured by bands of elastic . This he carried to his desk , deposited in a drawer , and locked the drawer .