midnight
Sensible ? '' `` Sounds reasonable , Steve . '' I let the matter drop at that ; I put the go-pedal down to the floor and fractured a lot of speed laws until we came to Denver . We made Denver just before midnight and drove around until we located a hotel that filled our needs . It was large , which would prevent overt operations on the part of the ` enemy ' and it was a dead area , which would prevent one of them from reading our minds while we slept , and so enable them to lay counterplans against us . The bellhop gave us a knowing leer as we registered separately , but I was content to let him think what he wanted . Better that he get the wrong idea about us than the right one .