midnight
`` Somebody 's out of luck , '' he commented . `` And speaking of being out of luck , I 've got a sick man on my hands . Friend of mine from home . We 've got to catch the midnight , too . '' `` Too bad , '' Wilkins commented rather absently . Then , perhaps feeling that he had not shown proper interest , `` Tell you what I 'll do . I 've got some business on hand now , but it 'll be cleared up one way or another pretty soon .