midnight
Each one of the faculty answered to toasts , and compared me and Andy to Rockefeller and the Emperor Marcus Autolycus . I pounded on the table and yelled for Professor McCorkle ; but it seems he was n't present on the occasion . I wanted a look at the man that Andy thought could earn $ 100 a week in philanthropy that was on the point of making an assignment . `` The students all left on the night train ; and the town sounded as quiet as the campus of a correspondence school at midnight . When I went to the hotel I saw a light in Andy 's room , and I opened the door and walked in . `` There sat Andy and the faro dealer at a table dividing a two-foot high stack of currency in thousand-dollar packages . '' ` Correct , ' says Andy .