midnight
One read his paperbound Tolstoy ; another poured over his leaflet of Nietzsche , a third had a dog-eared Ibsen from the public library of Omaha , a fourth had a socialist newspaper , which he derided noisily , as it was not his peculiar cult of discontent ; while others played cards and others slept , but all were reasonably happy . And at the strange spectacle of men jail-bound enjoying life , Harvey marveled . And still the jail filled up . At midnight the policemen were using a vacant storeroom for a jail . By daybreak the people of the town knew that a plague was upon them . Every age has its peculiar pilgrims , whose pilgrimages are reactions of life upon the times . When the shrines called men answered ; when the new lands called men hastened to them ; when wars called the trumpets woke the sound of hurrying feet -- always the feet of the young men .