midnight
`` We must be ready for anything , '' he remarked to Archie . `` The signs point to a disturbance of great waters , and there 's nothing like being prepared . '' At Cleveland Archie 's last doubt as to his mentor 's connection with the underworld of which he talked so entertainingly was removed . Reaching the city at midnight the car was left at a garage downtown , their trunks expressed to Chicago , and they arrived by a devious course at an ill-smelling boarding house . Here , the Governor informed him , only the aristocracy of the preying professions were received . The arrival of another guest , a tall man of thirty , who had been taking a porch-climbing jaunt through mid-western cities , added to Archie 's pleasure . In his clubs he had lent eager ear to the tales of such of his acquaintances as had slaughtered lions in Africa , or performed fancy stunts of mountaineering , and more lately he had listened with awe to the narratives of scarred veterans of the Foreign Legion ; but this fellow `` Gyppy , '' as the Governor called him , who had mastered the art of scaling colonial pillars and raiding the second story chambers of the homes of honest citizens , seemed to Archie hardly less heroic .