midnight
`` Did you think it was queer ? '' `` A little . '' `` A girl I used to know back in the country tried to kill herself . She wrote me a letter , but it did n't get to me till after midnight , so I called up Max and got him to go with me down to the Rookeries district where she lives . Poor little Maggie ! She got caught in one of those sewing-girl traps . '' `` Some kind of machinery ? ''