midnight
This bundle she thrust under her bed , just as a long time ago she had thrust a similar bundle under a banksian clump in the meadowland below Cragg 's Ridge . Father John went to his bed very early , and he was thinking of Breault . The Hudson 's Bay Company post was only twelve miles away , and Breault would surely go there before questing from cabin to cabin for his victim . So it happened that a little after midnight he rose without making a sound , and by the light of a candle wrote a note for Nada , saying he had business at the post that day , and without wakening them had made an early start . This note Nada read to McKay when they sat at breakfast . `` Quite frequently he has gone like that , '' Nada explained . `` He loves the forests at night -- in the light of the moon . ''