midnight
`` Come on , boys , '' directed the captain , with an angry shrug . `` There 's no use wastin ' time on the critter . I 'm inclined ter think now that there 's somethin' more than ordinary in the wind , '' he added , as they left the hut , with the half-idiotic chuckles of its occupant ringing in their ears . It was not far from midnight when the boys , sorely perplexed , once more reached Hampton . The main street had been deserted long since , and every one in the village had returned to rest . The boys left the captain by the water-front , while they headed up the Main Street for their respective homes . Rob remained up , pondering over the events of the evening for some time , without arriving at any solution of them .