one in the morning
`` And I 'll tell you why . '' He told him . He said things that no doctor should say to another , but which a politician may well say , and has often said , to another politician -- things which can not bear repeating , if , for no other reason , because they are too humiliating and too little conducive to pride for the average American citizen to know ; things of the inside , secret governments of imperial municipalities which the average American citizen , voting free as a king at the polls , fondly thinks he manages ; things which are , on rare occasion , partly unburied and promptly reburied in the tomes of reports of Lexow Committees and Federal Commissions . * * * * * And Walter Merritt Emory won his desire of Michael against Doctor Masters ; had his wife dine with him at Jules ' that evening and took her to see Margaret Anglin in celebration of the victory ; returned home at one in the morning , in his pyjamas went out to take a last look at Michael , and found no Michael . * * * * * The pest-house of San Francisco , as is naturally the case with pest-houses in all American cities , was situated on the bleakest , remotest , forlornest , cheapest space of land owned by the city . Poorly protected from the Pacific Ocean , chill winds and dense fog-banks whistled and swirled sadly across the sand-dunes . Picnicking parties never came there , nor did small boys hunting birds ' nests or playing at being wild Indians .