midnight
`` The majority was only six hundred and eighty-two , sir . '' `` Then we had them mightily scared for a time . Odd that the ` phone did not wake me up . '' `` I took it off the hook , sir , at midnight . I knew it would disturb you . '' `` Go down town and bring me up the sailing-lists and a few cabin-plans for ships bound for Japan . I intend to start for that country just as soon as I can dispose of the horses . ''