midnight
`` One word with you on another business before you go , '' he said . `` The tar-and-feathers for which Mrs. Tynan asks will be yours at any moment I raise my hand in Askatoon . There are enough women alone who would do it . '' `` Talk of that after midnight , '' sneered Burlingame desperately as the door was opened for him by Crozier . `` Better not go out by the front gate , '' remarked Crozier scornfully . `` Mrs. Tynan is a woman of her word , and the hose is handy . '' A moment later , with contemptuous satisfaction , he saw Burlingame climb the picket-fence at the side of the house .