midnight
Good night , Mr. Drew . '' Both the captain and the other man had gone when Drew went out into the larger room . The remainder of that afternoon he spent in a dream . When the day 's work was over , Drew dined hastily and then shut himself in his room where he worked busily until midnight , filling in the vacant spaces in the rough draft of the confession . He was critical of his efforts , recasting and revising again and again until he was satisfied that he had caught the full meaning of the old document as far as it was humanly possible . Only then did he lay it aside -- to dream of Ruth . Drew was at the shop before his usual time the next morning , and Tyke and Captain Hamilton came in soon afterward .