Midnight
`` Elucidate , '' said Dink . `` A safety light is a light that has a connection with the door . Shut door , light ; open door , where is Moses ? Midnight reading made a pleasure . '' `` Marvelous ! '' `` Oh , I 've heard of that before , '' said Finnegan . The Tennessee Shad , meanwhile , had been busy stretching a string from his bed to the hot-air register and from a stick at the foot of his bed to a pulley at the top .