midnight
Then the arm was gone from about her shoulder . `` But I will , Dick , I will ! '' she sobbed , but as the words fell from her lips she heard the door close and felt the gust of cold air that chilled the hall . * * * * * She was still awake when the midnight accommodation whistled its impending arrival from the north . She listened , tense , as the train came to a stop in the town . A brief halt , then it sounded its underway , the pistons accelerated their chugging beat and it passed out of Crampville into the south . She stood , still-breathed , dry-eyed , till the last grinding rumble died out of the frosty night , then as a full realization of her loss came home , she dropped to the side of the bed and buried her face in the coverlid .