midnight
`` What did he look like , Terence ? '' asked Pete Connear . Even as the Factor , none of the other men had seen the troublesome Nor ` wester at close range . The nearest vision they had had of him was in the gun-smoke of a skirmish or in the semi-darkness of a midnight raid . `` Fair as a Dane wid the same blue eyes , '' the Irishman answered . `` Listen till that , would ye ! '' cried Stewart .