midnight
If Red Shirt comes round , it would be night anyway , and as he is liable to be seen by students or some others during the early part in the evening , it would surely be after nine . For the first two nights , I was on the watch till about 11 o'clock , but no sight of Red Shirt was seen . On the third night , I kept peeping through from nine to ten thirty , but he did not come . Nothing made me feel more like a fool than returning to the boarding house at midnight after a fruitless watch . In four or five days , our old lady began worrying about me and advised me to quit night prowling , -- being married . My night prowling is different from that kind of night prowling . Mine is that of administering a deserved chastisement .