nearly midnight
No manager had ever reeled off work at such a dizzy pace as Phil Forrest was doing . It challenged their admiration and made them forget their weariness . The country routes started , Phil set his lithographers at work . The men kept at it until nearly midnight . They had completed their work in the town and in the meantime Phil and Teddy had squared the hits , as they are called -- the places where the banners were to be tacked up -- all ready for the banner men to get to work when they arrived in town next morning , or late that night . They arrived about midnight , but the other car did not come on the train with them . They brought the information that the train was a limited one , and would not carry the rival car .