midnight
`` Remain with your Tonia ; no one will find you here . '' The Kid looked keenly into the shadows up and down the arroyo and toward the dim lights of the Mexican village . `` I 'll see how it looks later on , '' was his decision . ***** At midnight a horseman rode into the rangers ' camp , blazing his way by noisy `` halloes '' to indicate a pacific mission . Sandridge and one or two others turned out to investigate the row . The rider announced himself to be Domingo Sales , from the Lone Wolf Crossing . he bore a letter for Senor Sandridge .