midnight
Neither of them noticed a man who got out of the elevator just before Starr fell and walking rapidly toward the open door saw the whole action . In a moment more Mr. Endicott stood in the door surveying the scene before him with stern , wrathful countenance . Like a dash of cold water his appearance brought several of the participants in the disgraceful scene to their senses . A few questions and he was possessed of the whole shameful story ; the stag dinner growing into a midnight orgy ; the foolish dare , and the reckless acceptance of it by the already intoxicated bridegroom ; the drugged drinks ; and the practical joke carried out by brains long under the influence of liquor . Carter 's man who had protested had been bound and gagged in the back room . The jokers had found no trouble in securing the necessary tools to carry out their joke . Money will buy anything , even an undertaker for a living man .