midnight
No word was uttered till the Major called from the doorway : `` Mr. Ramsey , Mrs. Thayer wants to know if you wo n't come and have some dinner . '' A STOP-OVER AT TYRE . Albert Lohr was studying the motion of the ropes and lamps , and listening to the rumble of the wheels and the roar of the ferocious wind against the pane of glass that his head touched . It was the midnight train from Marion rushing toward Warsaw like some savage thing unchained , creaking , shrieking , and clattering through the wild storm which possessed the whole Mississippi Valley . Albert lost sight of the lamps at last , and began to wonder what his future would be . `` First I must go through the university at Madison ; then I 'll study law , go into politics , and perhaps some time I may go to Washington . '' In imagination he saw that wonderful city .