midnight
I looked down , and saw you and Mother with white faces and crying . I began to cry too , but the woman with the feather cap told me not as she was taking me to a beautiful big star where Mother would soon come to find me . '' The Prince and I looked at each other and Merapi feigned to busy herself with hushing the child to sleep again . It drew towards midnight and still no one seemed minded to go to rest . Old Bakenkhonsu appeared and began to say something about the night being very strange and unrestful , when , suddenly , a little bat that was flitting to and fro above us fell upon his head and thence to the ground . We looked at it , and saw that it was dead . `` Strange that the creature should have died thus , '' said Bakenkhonsu , when , behold !