about midnight
`` He 's got too much on me ! I ai n't hopin ' to start trouble . You go chase yourself , Nucky . I 'll be round about midnight . '' Nucky 's chasing himself consisted of the purchase of a newspaper which he read for a few minutes in the sunshine of the park . Even as he sat on the park bench , apparently absorbed in the paper , there was an air of sullen unhappiness about the boy . Finally , he tossed the paper aside , and sat with folded arms , his chin on his breast .