midnight
Get back to your kennel . '' Fearful mutterings followed that , but the shadow retired , and he made an undisturbed exit to the street . Once on the street-car , the entire episode became unreal and theatrical , with only the drag of Joe 's revolver in his coat pocket to prove its reality . It was after midnight when , shoes in hand , he crept up the stairs to Dan 's room , and careful not to disturb him , slipped into his side of the double bed . He did not sleep at all . He lay there , facing the fact that Lily had delivered herself voluntarily into the hands of the enemy of her house , and not only of her house , an enemy of the country . That conference that night was a sinister one .