midnight
`` A very good place of concealment indeed , sir . As soon as it was dark , Mooie returned to watch . What happened to him I have n't fully discovered , sir . But it must have been near midnight when he staggered up to Crossen 's place , bleeding and half out of his senses . They brought him here , and I watched over him most of the night . He says the girl went aboard the scow and that the scow started down-river . That much I learned , sir .