midnight
So during the week and a day , the waves of hate and the winds of adverse circumstance beat upon the house of faith , which he had builded slowly through other years in the Valley , and it stood unshaken . Grant Adams sat in his cell , with the jail smell of stone and iron and damp in his nostrils . As he read the copy of Tolstoy 's `` The Resurrection , '' which his cell-mate had left in his hurried departure the night before , Grant moved unconsciously to get into the thin direct rays of the only sunlight -- the early morning sunlight , that fell into his cage during the long summer day . The morning _ Times _ lay on the floor where Grant had dropped it after reading the account of what had happened to his cell-mate when the police had turned him over to the Law and Order League , at midnight . To be sure , the account made a great hero of John Kollander and praised the patriotism of the mob that had tortured the poor fellow . But the fact of his torture , the fact that he had been tarred and feathered , and turned out naked on the golf links of the country club , was heralded by the _ Times _ as a warning to others who came to Harvey to preach Socialism , and flaunt the red flag . Grant felt that the jailer 's kindness in giving him the morning paper so early in the day , was probably inspired by a desire to frighten him rather than to inform him of the night 's events .