midnight
`` My dear Bunny , we must leave something to the imagination of the police . But we will assist them to a fact or two in due season . It was the dead of night when Maguire first took us to his house ; it was at the Imperial Boxing Club we met him ; and you meet queer fish at the Imperial Boxing Club . You may remember that he telephoned to his man to prepare supper for us , and that you and he discussed telephones and treasure as we marched through the midnight streets . He was certainly bucking about his trophies , and for the sake of the argument you will be good enough to admit that you probably bucked about yours . What happens ? You are overheard ; you are followed ; you are worked into the same scheme , and robbed on the same night . ''