midnight
Quiet men , these last , uneasy and anxious , as ignorant as the others of which way the black cat , the symbol of sabotage and destruction , would jump . The majority of their men would stand for order , they declared , but there were some who would go over . They urged , to offset that reflection on their organization that the proletariat of the city might go over , too . But , by midnight , it seemed as though the situation was solving itself . In the segregated district there had been a small riot , and another along the river front , disturbances quickly ended by the police and the volunteer deputies . The city had not gone dark . The bombs had not exploded .