midnight
You know there are sections of New York which strangers do well to keep out of at night . '' So , mounting their cycles again , the three set off for the foreign section of Tientsin . At first the streets were very bad , but in time they came to smoother running and good time was made . It was now approaching midnight , but the city , was still awake and stirring . The streets were well filled with pedestrians , and many of the small shops were open . Naturally the three motorcycles , speeding through the streets of the ancient city , attracted no little attention . Here and there little groups blocked the way for an instant , but on the whole fair progress was made .