three hours after midnight
`` Not a thing . No Lipan has shown himself even among the trees . '' `` About what time do you think it is ? '' `` Two or three hours after midnight , and now I 'm going to take a nap while you watch . Ned , do you know , I 've an idea those fellows are going to sit in the woods indefinitely , safe , beyond range , and wait for us to come out . Does n't it make you angry ? '' `` It does , and it makes me angry also to think that they have our horses .