midnight
What did he mean , Papa Sherwood ? '' But her father postponed his explanation until later ; and it was really from her mother that Nan heard the story of Mr. Sherwood 's trouble with Ravell Bulson . Mrs. Sherwood was very indignant about it , and so , of course , was Nan . A week or more before , Mr. Sherwood had had business in Chicago , and in returning took the midnight train . The sleeping car was side-tracked at Tillbury and when most of the passengers were gone the man in the berth under Mr. Sherwood 's began to rave about having been robbed . His watch and roll of banknotes had disappeared . The victim of the robbery was Mr. Ravell Bulson .