about midnight
Go along home , and advise everybody to come and see the tragedy . '' Next day you could n't hear nothing around that town but how splendid that show was . House was jammed again that night , and we sold this crowd the same way . When me and the king and the duke got home to the raft we all had a supper ; and by and by , about midnight , they made Jim and me back her out and float her down the middle of the river , and fetch her in and hide her about two mile below town . The third night the house was crammed again -- and they war n't new-comers this time , but people that was at the show the other two nights . I stood by the duke at the door , and I see that every man that went in had his pockets bulging , or something muffled up under his coat -- and I see it war n't no perfumery , neither , not by a long sight . I smelt sickly eggs by the barrel , and rotten cabbages , and such things ; and if I know the signs of a dead cat being around , and I bet I do , there was sixty-four of them went in .