midnight
`` Reggie Paynter was murdered last night , too ; right on the pike south of town . They threw his corpse outen a ottymobile . '' `` By gol ! '' cried Jeb Case ; `` I hearn them devils go by last night ` bout midnight er after . ' T woke me up . They must o ' ben goin ' sixty mile an hour . Er say , '' he stopped to scratch his head .