midnight
A long breath seemed to rise from the listening crowd . Automatically it broke up into little groups and the best efforts of the strike leaders could not pull it together again . Roger felt that the excitement was all over and he made his way slowly home . At midnight that night a terrific explosion shook the little town of Eagle 's Wing . Roger had not finished pulling on his clothes when the fire bells began to ring . He caught his father rushing out of the front door . Ernie and his father joined them and they followed other hurrying groups toward the factory .