the summer midnight
Had McNabb changed his mind and sent Downey to arrest him for the theft of the coat ? He thought of Orcutt 's big bills in his pocket , and his blood seemed to turn to water within him . Then suddenly he remembered that for the present , at least , he held those bills under color of authority . In the deep twilight that is the summer midnight of the North he searched the officer 's face . Damn the man ! Why did n't he say something ? Why did he always force another to open a conversation ?