midnight
`` Have you any idea , colonel , '' he began the moment the officers reached him , `` where Major Burleigh can be ? He left the depot somewhere about three o'clock this morning with that Captain Newhall . He has n't returned and ca n't be found . Your sergeant-major was waylaid and robbed some time after midnight , and John Folsom was picked up senseless in the alley back of his house two hours ago . What does it all mean ? '' That storm-burst along the range had turned for twenty-four hours every mountain stream into a foaming torrent for a hundred miles . Not a bridge remained along the Platte .