About midnight
Then , Bevan taking one end of the blanket and Irwin the other , they carried the corpse away to its lonely grave , and reverently laid it therein . This done , Roger , kneeling by the grave-side , said a prayer , whilst the seamen stood by with bared heads , after which the sand was shovelled back , and a small mound raised over the grave . The death of Evans affected the three survivors more or less during the remainder of the day ; they were all very silent and thoughtful , and turned in early to sleep . About midnight Roger awoke with a vague sense of some impending evil . He turned and turned again upon his hard couch , but found it impossible to sleep . After a time he began to feel that there was a something missing to which he had been accustomed . He racked his brain over and over again , vainly trying to remember what it was , but for some time without success .