night, about 11 o'clock
Harper 's recently . If the cyclones have n't got you by the time this reaches Aberdeen , write . Very truly , your friend , This letter I registered at Lexington and at night , about 11 o'clock , when I had followed it into the Cincinnati post-office , Herrick and Salmon were in the money-order division on a step-ladder , peering through a glass transom into the registry division . As soon as possible I joined them , and patiently we waited for Quinsey to turn a trick . It was exactly two A. M. when he commenced on the Chicago bill . He reached the letter from Lexington at precisely 2:45 .