midnight
Captain Jones had come down from Fort Sheridan late that afternoon . He had been in Chicago for several days , as a member of a board assembled up at Fort Sheridan . The work was over and he would return to the Arsenal that night . But he was not to go until midnight . He would have dinner and go to the theater with some of the friends with whom he had been in those last few days . He wished it were otherwise . He was in no mood for them .