midnight
There was a saloon and a cheap restaurant on the ground floor . On the second floor were wine-rooms and a notorious gambling-den . Above this was the hotel . The guests stole in at midnight and stole out at dawn . This gambling-den was frequently the bone of contention between energetic ministers of the gospel and the police department . Regularly the police swore that gambling did not exist in town , and regularly the ministers went on a still hunt for proofs . Singularly enough , they never found any .