midnight
Outside of Nellie 's mother the one friend to whom Sam turned now was Jeff . He came for comfort , to sit long hours in the office while Farnum did his night work . Sometimes he would read ; more often sit brooding with his chin in his hands . When the midnight rush was past and Jeff was free they would go together to a restaurant . Afterwards they would separate at the door of the block where Jeff had his rooms . Yet when Jeff found her it was not Sam who was with him , but Marchant . They had been to see Sobieski about a place Captain Chunn had secured for him as a night watchman of the shipbuilding plant of which Clinton Rogers was part owner .