midnight
Unless relief came soon the houseboat party would truly have to be fed from Heaven . `` Rather than put you in this position I would have stayed ten years in that hole , '' groaned Jimmy Lawton . The group of young people were huddled close about their wood fire . It was a little past midnight . Each moment they expected to hear a sound at the door that would mean a fight or else the surrender of their captive . The two men would come to the lodge when they found no sign of them in the woods . `` I do n't see how you can say you have got us into a scrape , Lieutenant Lawton , '' argued Phyllis .