midnight
We shall be there to-night if it 's not a hundred miles , and that 's time enough . ' We did drop in for a long day , and no mistake . We only pulled up for a short halt in the middle , and Warrigal 's cast-iron pony was off again , as if he was bound right away for the other side of the continent . However , though we were not going slow either , but kept up a reasonable fast pace , it must have been past midnight when we rode into Starlight 's camp ; very glad Jim and I were to see the fire -- not a big one either . We had been taking it pretty easy , you see , for a month or two , and were not quite so ready for an eighty-mile ride as if we had been in something like training . The horses had had enough of it , too , though neither of them would give in , not if we 'd ridden 'em twenty mile farther . As for Warrigal 's Bilbah he was near as fresh as when he started , and kept tossin ' his head an ' amblin ' and pacin ' away as if he was walkin ' for a wager round a ring in a show-yard .