midnight
The silence of midnight descended over the transient formality of the hotel room . Undoubtedly Albert had a fever which seemed to be rising . He moistened his lips now constantly and threw himself about beneath the coverings , and then Mrs. Becker , not to be restrained , would lean forward to brush backward from his brow , as if there were hair . At midnight the doctor returned and at one o'clock Albert was removed to Murray Hill Hospital . He was ill three days , slipping off almost from the beginning into a state of coma from which he did not emerge . With a celerity that was presently to race it through the country , this strange malady laid low its victim with what might have been pneumonia , except for certain complications that baffled and alarmed an already thoroughly aroused medical world . The second day a sort of dark rash broke out over Albert 's chest , so that his nurses entered the room in gauze masks , and finally , in spite of Lilly 's protestations and Mrs. Becker 's most violent hysterics , no admittance to the sick room was granted them .