about
midnight
You understand that , do n't you ? Very well , then ; everybody come up and have a drink on the sheriff 's office . ' That was about the talk in every saloon and dance-hall visited . But when we proposed starting back to camp , about midnight , the big deputy said to Flood : ` I want you to tell Colonel Lovell that I hold a warrant for his arrest ; urge him not to put me to the trouble of coming out after him . If he had identified himself to me this afternoon , he could have slept on a goose-hair bed to-night instead of out there on the mesa , on the cold ground . His reputation in this town would entitle him to three meals a day , even if he was under arrest . Now , we 'll have one more , and tell the damned old rascal that I 'll expect him in the morning . ' ''