midnight
No , no ! We go now . I have an aunt in Deadwood , you know ! '' `` It 's forty-five miles , and we ca n't get there till midnight , even if my horse holds out . '' `` We may overtake him before that , '' said Belle , though she knew quite well they would not , for Hartigan would ride like a madman . It had not been difficult to enlist Carson 's sympathies . A sincere friendship had sprung up between the boyish preacher and himself and their total dissimilarity had made them congenial .