midnight
shouted Yellin ' Kid . `` Over there ! '' and Dick pointed the trail along which they had ridden that day . Quickly he told his story -- how he had been awakened by the midnight visitor kicking the boy 's foot as he strode over him . `` Come on ! '' called Snake and in a moment the entire camp was trailing after him in the direction where Dick had seen the old man vanish . But it was like pursuing one of the shadows of the night , and it did not take long , after emerging from the circle of illumination of the fire into the blackness of the surrounding night , to impress all with the idea that a capture was out of the question .