midnight
Watching her chance , she got a glimpse of Blake 's speedometer . Then she quickly slipped back to her room and sat there in excited thought . The evening before the mileage had read 1437 ; this morning the reading was 1459 . Blake , in his furtive midnight journey , had travelled twenty-two miles . If he had slipped forth to meet a secret ally , then evidently their place of meeting was half of twenty-two miles distant . Where was this rendezvous ? Almost instantly she thought of The Sycamores .