midnight
`` I am not so sure of that first statement , my boy ; '' and now both eyes and face expressed a business-like gravity . `` I remember , if you do not , that I am twenty thousand dollars better off to-day than I should have been but for your courage and unparalleled presence of mind . Moreover , you have more funds than you seem to be aware of . Do you remember a certain ten-dollar bill which you brought to me one midnight ? Well , I held that bill in my hand , intending to present it to you to assist you in setting up business for yourself ; but on learning that your intentions were to open a hotel , I concluded to await the development of affairs and invest otherwise . After I became conversant with your peculiar ideas concerning hotels , I discovered that you needed no assistance from me . But that ten dollars I invested sacredly for you , and a more remarkable ten dollars never came into my hands .