midnight before
They got fifty thousand out of him , and sold him out , and he never got to Congress after all ! That was just before he concluded that America was n't a fit place for a gentleman to live in . '' And so Mrs. Billy got started on the Devons ! And after that came the Havens and the Wymans and the Todds -- it was midnight before she got through with them all . The newspapers said nothing more about the Hasbrook suit ; but in financial circles Montague had attained considerable notoriety because of it . And this was the means of bringing him a number of new cases . But alas , there were no more fifty-thousand-dollar clients !