midnight
So , at nine o'clock , when the others turned in , Greg , the air rifle in one hand , paced softly up and down the cabin , watching , listening . But nothing happened during Greg 's watch . At eleven he called Tom Reade to relieve him . Just before midnight the same wailings as on the night before started in again . Within sixty seconds all of the Grammar School boys were awake and listening . The wailings continued , and soon came the same sepulchral warnings of death approaching . `` Queer that the racket does n't bother us the way it did last night , is n't it ? ''