midnight
`` I 'd throw the whole business out o ' the window for a cent ! '' growled the man . `` Here 's y' r cent , '' said the boy . `` You 're mighty frisky f ' r a feller gitt 'n' off 'n a midnight train , '' replied the man , as he tramped along a narrow hallway . He spoke in a voice loud enough to awaken every sleeper in the house . `` Have t ' be , or there 'd be a pair of us . '' `` You 'll laugh out o ' the other side o ' y' r mouth when you saw away on one o ' the bell-collar steaks this house puts up , '' ended the clerk , as he put the lamp down .