midnight
Six weeks later , on the morning after the general election , Dumont awoke bubbling over with good humor -- as always , when the world went well with him and so set the strong , red currents of his body to flowing in unobstructed channels . He had not gone to bed the previous night until he had definite news from Indiana , Illinois and New York , the three states in which his industrial-political stakes were heaviest . They had gone as he wished , as he and his friends had spent large sums of money to assist them to go . And now a glance at the morning papers confirmed his midnight bulletins . Indiana , where he had made the strongest efforts because the control of its statute book was vital to him , had gone his way barely but , apparently , securely ; Scarborough was beaten for governor by twenty-five hundred . Presently he had Culver in to begin the day 's business . The first paper Culver handed him was a cipher telegram announcing the closing of an agreement which made the National Woolens Company absolute in the Northwest ; the second item in Culver 's budget was also a cipher telegram -- from Merriweather .