midnight
I 've overdrawn my account , with my usual carelessness , and I want this money to get to the bank before the checks do . '' Stanley went back to his little one-roomed house . He shaved , bathed , laid out his Sunday best , re-read his precious letters , and dropped off to dreamless sleep . Between midnight and one o'clock Bat Wiley , wild-eyed and raging , burst into the barroom of the Admiral Dewey and startled with a tale of wrongs such part of wakeful Cobre as there made wassail . At the crossing of Largo Draw he had been held up at a gun 's point by a single robber on horseback ; Zurich 's money had been taken from him , together with some seventy dollars of his own ; his team had been turned loose ; it had taken him nearly an hour to catch them again , so delaying the alarm by that much . Boots and spurs ; saddling of horses ; Bob Holland , the deputy sheriff , was called from his bed ; a swift posse galloped into the night , joined at the last moment by Mr. Dewing , who had retired early , but had been roused by the clamor . They came to Largo Crossing at daybreak .