midnight
I 'm showing my hand for the first time . Cloran 's the man that 's making you wear those clothes ; Cloran 's the only one who could go into the witness box and swear that you were the woman who murdered Deemer ; and Cloran 's the man who has been working his head off for two years to find you . We 've tried a dozen times to bump him off in a way that would make his death appear to be due purely to an accident , and we did n't get away with it ; but we can afford to leave the ` accident ' out of it to-night , and go through for keeps -- and that 's what we 're going to do . And once he 's out of the way -- by midnight -- you can heave Gypsy Nan into the discard . '' It seemed to Rhoda Gray that horror had suddenly taken a numbing hold upon her sensibilities . Danglar was talking about murdering some man , was n't he , so that she could resume again the personality of a woman who was dead ? Hysterical laughter rose to her lips .