midnight
The Deacon cowered beneath the furious giant figure and beckoned to the detectives . Gordon and his wife passed by them and out into the night . The press next morning devoted entire pages to the sensation in the Pilgrim Church . Portraits of Gordon , his life and theories , sketches of the extraordinary scene in his pulpit , a full stenographic report of his address which he had carefully corrected at midnight , portraits of his wife and children , pictures of the old church , its reading-rooms , clubhouses and coffee-house , were exploited . His letter of resignation and the gift of a millon dollars for building a vast Temple of Humanity , that would be a forum of free thought in the heart of the metropolis , were the subject of separate editorials in every paper . Speculation as to the identity of this mysterious millionaire , who had apparently deserted the army of entrenched wealth to support this daring young revolutionist , filled columns . But it was all the wildest guessing .