midnight
They have been very fortunate lately , however . They have had my own divorce-case and Alan Campbell 's suicide . Now they have got the mysterious disappearance of an artist . Scotland Yard still insists that the man in the grey ulster who left for Paris by the midnight train on the ninth of November was poor Basil , and the French police declare that Basil never arrived in Paris at all . I suppose in about a fortnight we shall be told that he has been seen in San Francisco . It is an odd thing , but every one who disappears is said to be seen at San Francisco . It must be a delightful city , and possess all the attractions of the next world . ''