midnight
`` There 's a good many out from the shop huntin ' this mornin ' , ai n't there ? '' `` Fifty , '' said the first man , laconically . `` You three were out all day yesterday , wa 'n' t you ? '' `` Yes , Jim and Carl and me were out till after midnight . '' `` Well , I wonder whether the poor little young one is alive ? Do n't seem as if she could be -- but -- '' `` Look there ! look there ! ''