midnight
When they descended he knew what she was facing . Even Marie , the one friend he thought he had in the family , had taken a stand against them , and her father was deaf to every appeal . They parted , depressed , with only a hand pressure , a look and a whisper of constancy . At midnight , as Glover lay thinking , a crew caller rapped at his door . He brought a message and held his electric pocket-lamp near , while Glover , without getting up , read the telegram . It was from Bucks asking if he could take a rotary at once into the Heart Mountains . Glover knew snow had been falling steadily on the main line for two days .