midnight
`` Brethren -- me an ' Lily stahted soopreem when we come heah . Dat 's de way we finishes . I bids you -- good night ! '' With Lily at his heels , the favourite of Lady Luck made his way into the midnight fog which lay above the city . He walked to Market Street , and at the ferry building he headed down the Embarcadero toward the pier where the _ Empire _ was loading . In the deep shadows cast by a post in the long pier he removed his trailing robe . He rolled his insignia under his arm .