midnight
Reaction from this afternoon 's -- or , pardon me -- _ yesterday _ afternoon 's emergency ? '' Mike glanced up at the chronometer . It was two-thirty in the morning , Greenwich time . Jeffers held the bridge from midnight till noon , while Black Bart had the noon to midnight shift . Still , Mike had n't realized that it was as late as all that . He looked at Jeffers ' lean , bony face . `` Reaction ?