midnight
It was more for his own private satisfaction than for the furtherance of justice that he wished to track the offenders down . But he did not look on the affair , as Jimmy Silver did , as rather sporting ; he had a tender feeling for the good name of the school , and he felt that it was not likely to make Eckleton popular with the other schools that went to camp if they got the reputation of practical jokers . Practical jokers are seldom popular until they have been dead a hundred years or so . As for Walton and his colleagues , to complete the list of those who were interested in this matter of the midnight raid , they lay remarkably low after their successful foray . They imagined that Kennedy was spying on their every movement . In which they were quite wrong , for Kennedy was doing nothing of the kind . Camp does not allow a great deal of leisure for the minding of other people 's businesses .