About midnight
`` I 'll consider your case awhile , '' remarked Lowell after a moment 's thought . `` Perhaps we can speed you on your way to Omaha and the family . '' The prisoner was taken back to the agency jail leaving his bundle on Lowell 's desk . About midnight Lowell took the bundle and , going to the jail , roused the policeman who was on guard and was admitted to the prisoner 's cell . `` Look here , Red , '' said Lowell . `` Your name is Red , is n't it ? '' `` Red Egan . ''