midnight
But it was the termination of the discussion , a termination which left Ju victor , not because of the rightness of his views , but because there was no man in Orrville capable of joining issue with him in debate with any hope of success . Action rather than words was the prevailing feature with these people , and , in his way , Ju Penrose was equal , if not superior , not only in debate , but in the very method these people best understood . A moment later Sikkem took his departure . * * * * * * It was well past midnight when the last man turned out of Ju 's bar . But the crowd had not yet scattered to their various homes . They were gathered in a small , excited cluster gaping up at a big notice pasted on the weather-boarding of the saloon-keeper 's shack . Ju himself was standing in their midst , right in front of the notice , which had been indited in ink , evidently executed with a piece of flat wood .