midnight
Thank Heaven , it 's compact and simple . `` O'Connor , '' he went on , `` it is as I told you . It was Pitts Slim . He left here ten or fifteen minutes ago -- I do n't know by what exit , but I heard them say they would meet at the Central freightyards at midnight . Start your plain-clothes men out and send some one here , quick , to release us . We are locked in a room in the fourth or fifth house from the corner . There 's a secret passage to the yegg-house .