midnight
`` Well , to go back to the papers . Somebody stole your bag , or you lost it . YOU stole -- '' `` The driver stole , '' suggested Thatcher , so languidly that it could hardly be called an interruption . `` Well , we 'll say the driver stole , and passed over to you as his accomplice , confederate , or receiver , certain papers belonging -- '' `` See here , Harlowe , I do n't feel like joking in a ghostly law office after midnight . Here are your facts . Yuba Bill , the driver , stole a bag from this passenger , Wiles , or Smiles , and handed it to me to insure the return of my own . I found in it some papers concerning my case .