three o'clock in the morning
`` He said he would try to make it by daybreak , '' answered Poke Stover . `` It 's accordin ' as how he finds his men . '' The talking now dropped off , as the frontiersman said it would be best to remain silent and keep on guard at the various port-holes in the shutters . Slowly the night wore away , until it was three o'clock in the morning . Only one alarm had come , but this had amounted to nothing . `` I see a light , '' announced Dan . `` Can it be a camp-fire ? ''