midnight
No runners came in . Poor Mrs. Bennett , under the influence of some soothing medicine , had fallen asleep . The doctor , coming in late from a visit to the hospital , found Harris still wakeful , but not so feverish , and ` Tonio , worn and wearied , stretched on a Navajo blanket , seemed sleeping soundly on the side piazza , just without the door . The general and Willett had sat and smoked , with an occasional toddy , until after the midnight call of the sentries , the former still expectant of the return of Sanchez ; the latter pondering in mind certain theories of Wickham as to the Apache situation , to which at first he had paid little heed . If Wickham were right , then Sanchez might never have reached Prescott . If so , the general need never have to amend that report . And that the matter troubled Archer more than a little Willett was not too pleased to see .