midnight
`` No more water stations for us . '' Darkness fell , and the porters moved about , making up berths and answering the hundred and one insistent calls of the passengers . The girls went to bed with no protest whatever and were soon sleeping the sleep of healthy youth . It was toward midnight that they were rather rudely jerked out of this beautiful sleep by a sudden and almost violent stopping of the train . Betty , who was sleeping in a lower berth , she and Grace having decided to take turns , sat up and peered out of the grimed window into the gloom . No station lights greeted her , as she expected confidently they would . Nothing but inky , startling blackness .