midnight
He , too , was swallowed in the mist . Ahead of us up the road were noises that told us the Germans were landing bombs there , not half a mile -- perhaps not much more than a quarter of a mile away . The stretcher bearers told us that the Germans were shelling a cross-road . They shelled it every night at midnight to smash the revitalment train . The shells were landing right in the road whereon all these trucks and horse carts were passing . The doctor who left us returned in a few minutes in an ambulance -- wounded . Another ambulance came up with four or five wounded .