midnight
He said the nights in New York were too short to get much done . That if they only had nights as long as Alaska the town might become famous . `` As it is , '' he says , `` I do n't mind flirting with this city now and then , but I would n't want to marry it . '' Well , that about finished the evening , with Lon and Jeff making the room sound like a Pullman palace car at midnight . Oh , yes ; there was one thing more . On the day after the events recorded in the last chapter , as it says in novels , there was a piece in one of the live newspapers telling that a well-dressed man of thirty-five , calling himself Clifford J. Hotchkiss and giving a Brooklyn address , was picked up in a dazed condition by patrolman Cohen who had found him attempting to direct the operations of a gang of workmen engaged in repairing a crosstown-car track . He had been sent to the detention ward of Bellevue to await examination as to his sanity , though insisting that he was the victim of a gang of footpads who had plied him with liquor and robbed him of his watch .