midnight
`` Heavens , boy ! are you gone clean mad ? '' I would say . '' ` Twill be risky enough with midnight in our favor ; with the camp well asleep , and that great fire burned down to give us something less than broad daylight to work in ! '' He turned upon me like a pettish child . `` Oh , to the devil with your stumbling-blocks , John Ireton ! You are always for holding back .