midnight
`` That 's exactly the way I feel about it , '' agreed Mr. Conroyal . `` Twould be foolish to run any needless chances . Rex , you will stand guard for the first two hours . Then you can awaken Dill , who will keep guard until it is time to arouse the camp , which will be just as soon as the moon rises , somewhere around midnight . Now everybody but Rex get into their blankets . '' A small tent had been secured for the use of Mrs. Dickson , into which she now retired ; but the men found `` soft '' spots of ground near the camp-fire , spread out their blankets on them , and , rolling themselves up in the blankets , lay down to as sound a sleep as ever blessed a man in the most comfortable of beds . A little after midnight , just as the white disk of the moon rose above the tops of the mountains to the east , Dill quietly awoke his father ; and then the two quietly , and cautioning all to make as little noise as possible , awoke the others .