midnight
`` You said they might have mistaken Fremont for Ned . '' `` I can imagine that the man responsible for this gathering is interested in papers Nestor has , '' was the reply . Jimmie and the drummer were now advised to get what sleep they could , the guards explaining that they were `` expecting company , '' and that the talking might frighten the prospective callers away . It was now nearing midnight , and Jimmie tried hard to lose himself in sleep , but , tired as he was , this seemed to be impossible . Fremont might be in deadly peril , and Nestor and Shaw were still unaccountably absent . His idea now was that the secret service man had advanced the correct theory regarding the abduction of Fremont . He had no doubt that the boy had been mistaken for Nestor .