midnight
But somehow at this time of night we did not care to be discovered even by our friends the sailors . So we kept on , holding on to the chains , towards where the red light burned at the jetty-head . We were too excited to be afraid . One of those strange spirits of adventure had seized upon us which make boys ready for anything , and the thought of standing alone at midnight at the pier-head in a storm like that did not even dismay us . But before we were half-way along we found that it was not the easy thing we imagined . A huge wave struck the jetty behind the wall under which we crept , and next moment a deluge of spray and foam shot up and fell , drenching us to the skin . And almost before we knew what had happened another and another followed .