midnight
`` Where did you start from ? '' `` Buffalo Meadows . '' `` And when did you count on makin ' that forty-five miles ? '' `` I allowed to get there before midnight . '' `` Where 's your camp ? '' `` Well , we have n't got anything you can rightly call a camp ; but we 're located in a prairie schooner near by the spring in the valley . '' `` How many in the party ? ''