about midnight
`` I 'll tell you all I know , and I think I may be able to make amends for the trick we played upon you in using your team the other night , unless you think it was because of that that you had your horses where they could be stolen . '' `` Tell me what you have heard of my team ! '' exclaimed George , impatiently . `` Jack Roberts told me , this afternoon , that he saw two fellows in your carriage about midnight , and that they stopped all night , or at least the remainder of it , in the woods just above our camp . I went up there with him about five o'clock , and it did n't seem as if they could have been gone more than an hour before we got there . '' `` Did you find out which way they went ? '' `` As near as could be told by the tracks , they kept straight on toward Babcock . ''