midnight
asked Corydon . `` I 'm going to try what they call a ` Zenda ' story , '' said Thyrsis . `` The editor says the readers of the ` Treasure Chest ' have n't got tired of ` Zenda ' stories . '' And so Thyrsis spent the afternoon and evening wandering about in the park ; and sometime after midnight he wrote out his scenario . The advantage of a `` Zenda '' story was that , as the adventures happened in an imaginary kingdom , there would be no need to study up `` local color '' . As for the conventional artificial dialect , he could get it from any of the `` romances '' in the nearby circulating library . He did not dare to take the scenario the next day , but waited a decent interval ; and when he returned it was to report that the story was considered to be promising , and that he was to write twenty thousand words for a test .