midnight
Only , there were some things which I owed to my father , and no man could take them from me while I lived . Skill in arms I had from his teaching , and such seamanship as a man of two-and-twenty may have learned in short cruises ; woodcraft , too , and the many other things which the son of a jarl should know . And with these , health and strength , and a little Scots coolness , maybe ; for I could see that if aught was to be won , I had only myself to look to for the winning . So I , in the weird twilight that had fallen now with midnight , thought and tried to foresee what should be in the days to come , and could plan nothing . Only I knew that now , for the time at least , I and these two friends who slept had the lady yonder to care for before ourselves . I tired of the short walk to and fro presently , and I think that at last I forgot my fears of the dead king in my thoughts , for I went nearer the penthouse , and sat myself on the starboard boat on the deck . There had risen a light curling mist from the still sea now , as the air cooled , and it wrapped the ship round with its white folds , and hid the height of the drooping sails and the dragon head forward ; and presently it seemed to me that out of the mist came the wraiths of those of whom I thought , and drew near me , and I had neither fear nor joy of their coming .