midnight
`` He 's got a mean voice . He ought to have a tag hung on him and get carried to the morgue . He give me the shivers , like a dead man . I never hear such a unholy thing outside a graveyard at midnight ! '' Percy Darrow was surveying him with leisurely amusement , a slight smile playing over his narrow dark face . `` Talking to get back your nerve , '' he surmised cheerfully to the usually taciturn boss . `` I 'd like to know what it was got you going so ; it is n't much your style . ''