two o'clock in the morning
`` It will be worth two hundred and fifty dollars for anyone to find it and return it to me , '' shouted Mr. Macey . That scattered the searchers more widely still . Presently a woman friend drove home with Mrs. Macey , while her husband remained to push the search . He kept at it until two o'clock in the morning , half a hundred men and boys remaining in the search . Then Mr. Macey gave it up . The gaudy , foolish trifle was worth about five thousand dollars . As the night wore on Mr. Macey began to have a pessimistic notion that perhaps some one had found the scarf but had been too `` thrifty '' to turn in such a precious article for so small a reward .