three in the morning
But why had Snubby stayed away from the mass meeting except to break into the rooms of his classmates ? It was all too confusing . Teeny-bits could evolve no satisfactory explanation . At two or three in the morning he fell into a troubled sleep during which he dreamed that he was playing in the Jefferson game and that the stands were yelling in a tremendous chorus : `` He 's a _ thief _ ; he 's a _ thief _ ! '' On the morning after the discovery of the loot hidden under the floor of the closet at 34 Gannett Hall Teeny-bits awoke with the feeling that he had been experiencing a nightmare in which disaster and unhappiness had fastened a death-like clutch upon him . It scarcely seemed possible that those events with which the evening had been crowded were real . The speech at the mass meeting , the discovery of Snubby Turner sliding down the side of the fire rope and breaking into Campbell 's room , the incident with Mr. Stevens , the summons to Doctor Wells ' office , the visit to Gannett Hall and the astounding secret that revealed itself when the boards of the closet were lifted , -- all those events seemed like strange imaginings .