about midnight
`` Could you hear what they were talking about ? '' `` Yes , until the other man came . '' Ned and the others bent forward with new interest . Here was a fresh feature in the case -- a man who had not been referred to before coming into the hut about midnight . `` Who , '' asked Ned , `` was this other man ? '' `` An Americano . '' `` Had you seen him about the place before ? ''