midnight
Turning northward from Tome , the white robbers , late disguised as Indians , pursued their course towards the town of Albuquerque . Any one meeting them on the road would have mistaken them for a party of traders _ en route _ from the Rio Abajo to the capital of Santa Fe . But they went not so far . Albuquerque was the goal of their journey , though on arriving there -- which they did a little after midnight -- they made no stop in the town , nor any noise to disturb its inhabitants , at that hour asleep . Passing silently through the unpaved streets , they kept on a little farther . A large house or hacienda , tree shaded , and standing outside the suburbs , was the stopping place they were aiming at ; and towards this they directed their course . There was a _ mirador _ or belvidere upon the roof -- the same beside which Colonel Miranda and his American guest , just twelve months before , had stood smoking cigars .