midnight
Duncan came back , at seven o'clock , to get one of the new photographs of Dinkie and Lossie for identification purposes . They had rounded up a small boy at Morley and Kearney was motoring out to investigate . We 'd know by midnight ... . It is well after midnight , and Duncan has just had a phone-message from Morley . The little chap they had rounded up was a Barnado boy fired with a sudden ambition to join his uncle in the gold-fields of Australia . Somewhere , in the blackness of this big night , my homeless Dinkie is wandering unguarded and alone . _ Friday the Twenty-Ninth _ I have had no word from Peter ... .