midnight
And whenever Raz Brown deadheaded a car through , he always made up section eleven , and laid the hoodoo struggling but helpless under the chilly linen sheets of the lower berth . Glover had spent the day without incident or excitement on the Wind River branches , and the evening had gone , while waiting to take a train west to Medicine Bend , in figuring estimates at the agent 's desk in Wind River station . He was working night and day to finish the report that the new board was waiting for on the rebuilding of the system . At midnight when he boarded the train he made his way back to look for a place to stretch out until two o'clock . The Pullman conductor lay in the smoking-room of the head ` Frisco car dreaming of his salary -- too light to make any impression on him except when asleep . It seemed a pity to disturb an honest man 's dreams , and the engineer passed on . In the smoking-room of the next car lay a porter asleep .