midnight
Only one remark did Kennedy make as we settled ourselves for the long ride in the accommodation train to the city . `` That warning means that we have two people to protect -- both Brixton and his daughter . '' Speculate as I might , I could find no answer to the mystery , nor to the question , which was also unsolved , as to the queer malady of Brixton himself , which his physician diagnosed as jaundice . Far after midnight though it had been when we had at last turned in at our apartment , Kennedy was up even earlier than usual in the morning . I found him engrossed in work at the laboratory . `` Just in time to see whether I 'm right in my guess about the illness of Brixton , '' he remarked , scarcely looking up at me . He had taken a flask with a rubber stopper .