midnight
I hope you have a pleasant trip . '' It was so easy that Mark felt a trifle worried . His device was crude , and the priest had never before been so easily deceived . It was midnight when a big automobile containing Saunders , his ex-fireman friend and Mark , drew up cautiously on a side street near the Ministry . The men at first walked quietly past the house . They saw a light in the apartment occupied by Ruth , but there seemed to be no other light within . They then walked around the block , passing a policeman at the corner , and entered the alley behind the Ministry on the other side , out of the bluecoat 's sight .