midnight
Congdon asked . It seemed to Archie that he threw into the question a hope that they were to be fellow travelers to the end of the journey . Here was something , a turn of the screw , that even the Governor could not have foreseen . The conductor came for their tickets and Archie took advantage of the interruption to ponder the ethics and the etiquette of his predicament ; but there was no precedent in all history for such a synchronization of two gentlemen who had recently engaged in a midnight duel . Archie was appalled by the consciousness that he and Congdon were really hitting it off . The tickets surrendered , Congdon drew out his watch , said that he had been sleeping badly and hated to go to bed . He sat erect and tried to reach his coat pocket .