midnight
Some little uneasy action of his caught my notice . In a second my suspicions were aroused ; the meeting had been arranged , and I knew from what I had seen him to be that the girl was doomed . It was all very well for me to do up Cayuga Joe -- he was the Indian whose hundred dollars ' worth of cordwood I owned in lieu of six quarts of bad whiskey -- but his women-folks were entitled to be respected at least while I was around . I looked at my watch ; it was past midnight . I suddenly got boiling hot clean through . `` Look here , Tom Barrett , '' I said , `` I ai n't a saint , as everybody knows ; but if you do n't treat that girl right , you 'll have to square it up with me , d'you understand ? '' He threw me a nasty look .