midnight
`` It 's the biggest scoop I ever got in on . Sounds too good to be true . '' At Gillam 's Point Jeff and his friends , with Dunn and Quillen , left the _ Bellingham _ on the launch which brought the pilot . They caught the fast express a half hour later and reached Verden shortly after midnight . His hat drawn down over his eyes and muffled to the ears in an ulster so that he might not be recognized , Farnum took a cab with Captain Chunn , Dunn and Quillen for the office of the World . He slipped into the building and his private room unnoticed by any member of the staff . Dunn presently brought to him Jenkins , the make-up man .