midnight
`` We must make up our minds to spend the night where we are , '' observed Rayner . `` It will be as well for you and me to take watch and watch , and not to trust to any of the men , for although I have every confidence in Peek , I can not say the same for the rest . '' Oliver , of course , agreed to this , and took the first watch . At midnight he aroused Rayner , who had stretched himself on one of the lockers , not feeling inclined to turn into either of the doubtful-looking bunks at the side of the vessel . `` I suspect that we are going to have a change of weather , '' said Oliver , as he came on deck . `` The air feels unusually oppressive for this time of night . There is a mist rising to the southward , though the stars overhead shine as bright as usual . ''