midnight
`` Yes -- the Leopard mine ! We 'll take our own champagne and baptize the new reef and Lundi 's future fortunes . It shall be the great Leopard picnic -- the greatest ever ! '' It was furthermore suggested that , as there was a moon , it should be a moonlight picnic with a midnight supper at the mine . Lundi was fain to submit , whether he liked , it or not . He wondered a little what Emma Guthrie would say at having the mine invaded , but personally he did not care a toss . The narcotizing spell had fallen suddenly from him again , and life and his future fortunes looked uninterestingly grey .