nearly midnight
`` No , it 's not ! '' declared Ruth . `` I 'll take the chest to Chicago in the car . '' `` But it 's nearly midnight , Ruth . You ca n't do it , '' protested Mrs. Presby . There was little time for discussion and objection , and in the end the chest was again loaded into the car and the four `` Automobile Girls '' and Bob Stevens set off for Chicago , Miss Sallie promising to telephone to Mr. Stuart that the girls were on their way . It was a wild midnight ride into Chicago .