midnight
`` You see how it stands , '' I said to Ragnall . `` We have been brought here to fight for our friends , Harût , Marût and Co. , against their rebellious subjects , or rather the king who reigns jointly with them . '' `` It looks like it , '' he replied quietly , `` but doubtless we shall find out the truth in time and meanwhile speculation is no good . Do you go to bed , Quatermain , I will watch till midnight and then wake you . '' That night passed in safety . Next day we marched before the dawn , passing through country that grew continually better watered and more fertile , though it was still open plain but sloping upwards ever more steeply . On this plain I saw herds of antelopes and what in the distance looked like cattle , but no human being .